Singer Rickie Lee Jones attacks Bush [View All]

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Story from BBC NEWS: (01/07/2004)

American singer Rickie Lee Jones has attacked the policies of the Bush
administration on her latest record - despite the potential risk to her
career.

Rickie Lee Jones took the music world by storm in the late 1970s when
her self-titled debut album won best newcomer award at the Grammys.
But despite having vowed to stay away from politics, her latest album,
The Evening Of My Best Day, features many political protest songs that
directly criticise current US policy.

"To address George Bush and his presidency is a departure from my
usual point of view," Lee Jones told BBC World Service's Everywoman
programme. "I usually reflect things totally internally. But I think what is
happening in America is so disturbing to me, it becomes internal. You
can't not address it."

'Ominous law' Lee Jones is not the first singer to attack the Bush
administration. In March last year, Natalie Maines, a singer with country
group Dixie Chicks, said she felt "ashamed" President Bush came from
her home state of Texas.

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what a great headline, btw...
dp

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