Rickie Lee Jones was no stranger to New Orleans when she flew in from California to play Jazz Fest in 1992. She’d lived on the seamy edge of the Quarter in the early ’80s with a tribe of swashbuckling outlaws while working on Pirates, the critically acclaimed follow-up to the meteoric success of her Grammy-winning self-titled debut. But she didn’t become a full-fledged local resident until 2013, when she bou...
Rickie Lee Jones, photo by Gus Bennett / OffBeat