Naked Songs – Live and Acoustic

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Naked Songs - Live and Acoustic (Rickie Lee Jones album)
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Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1995
Recorded1994
Genre Singer–songwriter
Length69:26
Label Reprise
Producer Russ Titelman, Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Traffic from Paradise
(1993)
Naked Songs - Live and Acoustic (Rickie Lee Jones album)
(1995)
Ghostyhead
(1997)
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Naked Songs – Live and Acoustic is an album by the American singer–songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in October 1995 via Reprise Records. It reached No. 121 on The Billboard 200.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rickie Lee Jones; except where indicated

  1. "The Horses" (Jones, Walter Becker)
  2. "Weasel and the White Boys Cool" (Jones, Alfred Johnson)
  3. "Altar Boy"
  4. "It Must Be Love"
  5. "Young Blood"
  6. "The Last Chance Texaco"
  7. "Skeletons"
  8. "Magazine"
  9. "Living It Up"
  10. "We Belong Together"
  11. "Coolsville"
  12. "Flying Cowboys" (Jones, Sal Bernardi, Pascal Nabet Meyer)
  13. "Stewart's Coat"
  14. "Chuck E.'s in Love"
  15. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert, Joseph Kosma)

Personnel

Technical

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References

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