It's Like This

It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000.^[7][8] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record.^[9][10] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.^[11]

It's Like This
Studio album by Rickie Lee Jones
Released	September 12, 2000
Genre	Pop, rock
Label	Artemis[1]
Producer	Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Brody[2]
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Ghostyhead (1997) It's Like This (2000) Live at Red Rocks (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Robert Christgau	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended."^[9]

Track listing

1. "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
2. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
3. "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
4. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
5. "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
6. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
8. "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
9. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
10. "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
11. "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58

Personnel

• Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, guitar, organ
• Bruce Brody – organ
• John Pizzarelli – acoustic guitar
• Alex Foster – saxophone
• Jeff Dellisanti – bass clarinet
• Conrad Herwig – trombone
• Richard Davis – acoustic bass
• Paul Nowinski – acoustic bass
• Mike Elizondo – acoustic bass
• Peter Erskine – drums
• Carl Allen – drums
• Rick Marotta – drums
• Bashiri Johnson – percussion
• Joe Jackson – piano, backing vocals on "Show Biz Kids", and "For No One"
• Ben Folds – piano on "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", duet vocal "One Hand, One Heart"
• Ben Folds, Dan Hicks, Taj Mahal – backing vocals on "Up a Lazy River"

Technical

• Ben Sidran – co-producer (tracks: 1, 6–8, 10)
• Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
• Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2000	Billboard 200	148[12]
2000	Top Internet albums	10
2001	Top Independent albums	42