Album: Rickie Lee Jones, Balm in Gilead, (Fantasy)

Jones was the most delicately luminous talent produced by the West Coast scene of the 1970s. When she's good she changes the very light; when she's bad she's dull.

This is very good. It's a collection of hitherto uncompleted songs from the drifts of her career and ought to be seen as a triumph of good housekeeping. The ensemble includes Bill Frisell, Ben Harper, Alison Krauss and Vic Chesnutt; the sound is soulful, soft, bittersweet and woozy – like waking up with an old lover on an autumn morning. Slight but beautiful.