title: It's Like This
text: # It's Like This
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Robert Christgau | |
  | The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
  | Entertainment Weekly | A− |
  | The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
  
  It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000. Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record. The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
  * "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
  * "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
  * "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
  * "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
  * "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
  * "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
  * "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
  * "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
  * "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
  * "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, guitar, organ
  * Bruce Brody – organ
  * John Pizzarelli – acoustic guitar
  * Alex Foster – saxophone
  * Jeff Dellisanti – bass clarinet
  * Conrad Herwig – trombone
  * Richard Davis – acoustic bass
  * Paul Nowinski – acoustic bass
  * Mike Elizondo – acoustic bass
  * Peter Erskine – drums
  * Carl Allen – drums
  * Rick Marotta – drums
  * Bashiri Johnson – percussion
  * Joe Jackson – piano, backing vocals on "Show Biz Kids", "For No One" and "One Hand, One Heart"
  * Ben Folds – piano on "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
  * Ben Folds, Dan Hicks, Taj Mahal – backing vocals on "Up a Lazy River"
  
  ### Technical
  
  * Ben Sidran – co-producer (tracks: 1, 6–8, 10)
  * Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
  * Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography
  
  ## Chart positions
  
  | Year | Chart | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2000 | Billboard 200 | 148 |
  | 2000 | Top Internet albums | 10 |
  | 2001 | Top Independent albums | 42 |
  