She married Pascal Nabet Meyer and gave birth to daughter Charlotte Rose in 1988 while working on her fourth full-length studio album.

Promotional copies of Flying Cowboys were packaged with an interview with Jones conducted by Carl Arrington (previously misidentified as LeVar Burton).

This interview is the source for a passage that is extensively sampled on British electronic group the Orb's 1990 hit "Little Fluffy Clouds".

Rolling Stone, Nov. 2, 1989 (4/5) – "While it explores a wealth of themes and musical styles, the album unfolds with the ongoing grace of one long song.

The New York Times, Dec. 24, 1989 – Best of 1989 – "Ms. Jones's newest suite of enigmatic dream songs drenched in personal mythology is an eccentric tour de force, as rich in imagery as it is self-dramatizing."