It's Like This
# 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 |
