Miss Nicks's work with Fleetwood Mac has tended to emphasize the more delicate side of her musical personality. ''The Wild Heart'' marks both a recapitulation and a broadening of Stevie Nicks's musical scope. Wildly eclectic, her hipsterish rock-jazz persona embraces influences sources as diverse as 1940's jazz torch singing, Van Morrison, beat poetry, ''West Side Story,'' and most especially, Laura Nyro. While the new album contains only one original song, ''Hey, Bub,'' Miss Jones's musical personality is so strong that she lends everything she touches an expressionistic moodiness that makes it sound brand new. Rickie Lee Jones's music is jazzier, more ornate, and farther from the mainstream. And like Miss Mitchell's early 70's music, her songs are firmly grounded in folk-rock. While she lacks Miss Mitchell's psychological insights and eye for social detail, her songs describe the erotic life with the same mixture of exhilaration and anguish. Miss Nicks's erotic musings have much in common with Joni Mitchell's love songs of a decade ago. Miss Nicks's album is dedicated to a close friend who died five of the seven songs on Miss Jones's album evoke bygone relationships.īoth women belong to a female torch troubadour tradition that became entrenched in pop in the late 60's. Though the musical vocabularies of these records are quite different, they both have a strong elegiac feeling. 23805), is even more passionate and fraught with personal idiosyncracies. Miss Jones's mini-LP, ''Girl At Her Volcano'' (Warner Bros. True to its title, ''The Wild Heart'' (Modern 90084), Miss Nicks's second solo album, billows with fervent romantic breast-beating. ![]() The newest albums by Stevie Nicks and Rickie Lee Jones both stand firmly against the prevailing pop trend toward aural mechanization and cool-headed irony.
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