Home / Music / Rickie Lee Jones's Pirates came three years after her acclaimed debutMusic linernotes album music rickie-lee-jonesRickie Lee Jones's Pirates came three years after her acclaimed debutPirates was released in July 1981 on Warner Bros. Records, three years after her acclaimed self-titled debut. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesRickie Lee Jones' Pirates was ambitious — maybe too ambitious for some.Rickie Lee Jones won Best New Artist in 1980, beating the CarsMotown Records released the Commodores' 'Nightshift'Rickie Lee Jones' debut blended jazz, folk, and a bohemian sensibilityPirates traces the end of Rickie Lee Jones' relationship with Tom WaitsExploreThe Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack came out in September 2011 for the band's 20th anniversaryGentle Giant's The Power and the Glory was recorded across late 1973 and early 1974Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet was published three years after he diedMcCoy Tyner's The Real McCoy was cut in a single sessionElla Fitzgerald started the Rodgers and Hart Songbook in August 1956Previous Scott LaFaro died ten days after the Village Vanguard sessionsNext Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates was ambitious — maybe too ambitious for some.