Traffic from Paradise explained

Traffic from Paradise
Type:	Album
Artist:	Rickie Lee Jones
Cover:	Jones traffic.jpg
Released:	14 September 1993
Recorded:	1993
Studio:	Conway Recording Studios, Oceanway Studios and Signet Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre:	Rock
Length:	44:45
Label:	Geffen
Producer:	Rickie Lee Jones
Prev Title:	Pop Pop
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Naked Songs
Next Year:	1995

Traffic from Paradise is the seventh album by the musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1993.

Track listing

All songs written by Rickie Lee Jones, except where noted.

1. "Pink Flamingos" – 6:31
2. "Altar Boy" – 2:27
3. "Stewart's Coat" – 4:31
4. "Beat Angels" (Sal Bernardi) – 4:11
5. "Tigers" – 5:48
6. "Rebel Rebel" (David Bowie) – 4:39
7. "Jolie Jolie" – 4:26
8. "Running from Mercy" (Jones, Leo Kottke) – 6:01
9. "A Stranger's Car" – 2:53
10. "The Albatross" (Jones, Kottke, John Leftwich) – 3:12

Personnel

• Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, keyboards, bowed dulcimer, arrangements, backing vocals
• John Leftwich – musical director, bass, cello, acoustic guitar on "Tigers", backing vocals on "Stewart's Coat" and "Running from Mercy"
• Sal Bernardi – acoustic guitar, backing vocals on "Stewart's Coat" and "Running from Mercy"
• Leo Kottke – 6-string, 12-string, slide acoustic guitar, backing vocals on "Running from Mercy"
• David Hidalgo – 8-string electric guitar, backing vocals on "Beat Angels"
• Brian Setzer – electric guitar on "Rebel Rebel", backing vocals on "Beat Angels" and "Rebel Rebel"
• Dean Parks – electric guitar on "Tigers"
• David Baerwald – electric guitar on "Beat Angels", backing vocals on "The Albatross"
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Alex Acuña – drums, congas on "Tigers"
• Brad Dutz – percussion, marimba, tarkas, bodhrán, udu, mixing bowls on "Rebel Rebel"
• Efrain Toro – percussion on "Pink Flamingos" and "Stewart's Coat"
• Bobby Bruce – violin
• Douglas Lyons – French horn
• Syd Straw – backing vocals on "Beat Angels" and "Rebel Rebel"
• Lyle Lovett – backing vocals on "Running from Mercy"
• Teresa Tudury – backing vocals on "Running from Mercy"

Technical

• John Cutcliffe – executive producer
• Julie Last – engineer, mixing
• Charles Stewart Parker – artwork, cover, illustrations
• Charlotte Rose – painting on back of sleeve