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Rickie Lee Jones talks ‘Last Chance Texaco’ and tales of music, heartache, addiction and family

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones says she decided to write her life story for one simple reason. The material was just so good. “I know I have great stories to tell,” she says recently by phone from her home in New Orleans. “I’ve told a few to audiences in live shows, and told them to friends, and watched them play in my head again and again.” Readers can now get the chance to experience these tales themselves in Jones’s memoir, “Last Chance Texaco,” which hit stores on April 6. She recounts t...
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Jason Aldean finishes his tour and set with Route 91 survivors in Irvine

Saturday was much more than just another concert night in Southern California for the fans that turned out for the final evening of country singer Jason Aldean’s High Noon Neon Tour at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine. For some, this was their first show or the first time returning to an Aldean concert since the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, where on Oct. 1 last year a gunman shot into the crowd of about 22,000 people who had just finished singing along to Aldean’s “Any Ol’ Barstool.” ...
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Jason Aldean finishes his tour and his set with Route 91 survivors in Irvine

Saturday was much more than just another concert night in Southern California for the fans that turned out for the final evening of country singer Jason Aldean’s High Noon Neon Tour at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine. For some, this was their first show or the first time returning to an Aldean concert since the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, where on Oct. 1 last year a gunman shot into the crowd of about 22,000 people who had just finished singing along to Aldean’s “Any Ol’ Barstool.” ...
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Route 91 shooting survivors will come together at Jason Aldean’s Irvine concert

Almost a year later the wounds — physical, emotional, spiritual — still linger from those deadly minutes on Oct. 1, 2017 when a gunman inside the Mandalay Bay resort fired round after round after round on a crowd of 20,000 country music fans at the Route 91 Harvest festival below his perch. Headliner Jason Aldean was six songs into his weekend-closing set when a few pop-pop-pops turned into what seemed like an endless barrage of bullets. When it was over, 58 people were dead and 500 or so injure...
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