To say that I was not looking forward to a new album by Sheryl Crow was an understatement. I’d bought every album she’d released since her charming 1993 debut, “Tuesday Night Music Club”, and the law of diminishing returns had come into play with every successive record. 2008’s “Detours” was strained and boring. I’d say she was one album away from joining the likes of LL Cool J on my “never buy an album by them again” list. Surprisingly, “100 […]
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New Release Report: Something to Crow About?
Another kinda slow week for music buying, at least if you like what I like. Here are some highlights. Sheryl Crow “100 Miles from Memphis”-As I have mentioned in a previous post, I haven’t really dug Sheryl’s last couple of albums. However, the smooth first single “Summer Day” has me anticipating a Sheryl album more than I have in at least a decade. Keith Richards and Justin Timberlake both guest here, and she covers Citizen Cope’s “Sideways”. She also gives […]
Celebrating a “Summer Day” with Sheryl Crow
While the younger folks jam to Katy Perry’s “California Gurls”, I’ll take Sheryl Crow’s new “Summer Day” as my mid-year anthem, thank you very much. With this soul-spiked slow-burner from her upcoming album “100 Miles from Memphis”, Crow bounces back into my good graces. Not that she’d been totally out of my good graces-she’d just been wallowing in mediocrity and inconsistency over the course of her last two or three albums. Perhaps that was due to a mid-career slump, perhaps […]