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...Sheryl Crow...
...girl who only wanted to have some fun seems to have finally settled down. Her third album, The Globe Sessions gives us a Sheryl Crow that can still wail and yell with the raspiest of them, but also one who can sing softly and play second fiddle to the instruments that have always supported her. Sessions once again proves that Crow is an artist constantly reinventing her music, and this time she has striven to represent a diversity of rhythms and styles, instead of focusing on lyrics and catchy melodies...
...Crow's first two albums, 1993's Tuesday Night Music Club and 1996's Sheryl Crow, include songs that any radio listener could identify and quote from. Who can forget, and indeed consistent radio play makes it hard to forget, the lines "All I wanna do is have some fun," Everyday is a winding road" and "If it makes you happy..."? Crow shaped the songs on her first two albums around these sing-along lyrics and a host of fictional characters, relating anecdotes about a promiscuous neighbor in "Oh Marie," a bored and nosy bar chick in "All I Wanna...
Whereas the songs on Tuesday Night Music Club could only be called "folksy pop" and those on Sheryl Crow "rock," there is no simple label for the diverse sounds of Sessions. Crow tries out a country, bluegrass style on a few songs, a rocking, bass-heavy sound on others, and experiments on some tracks with new instruments such as the harmonica and violin...
...Favorite Mistake" starts the album in classic Crow style. Sounding a little tipsy but always determined, Crow laments a bad relationship against the background of a catchy bass line that she plays herself. Things turn hyper with "There Goes the Neighborhood" (first line: "Let's party, let's get down"), but slow down with the gently acoustical "Riverwide", two examples of the wide rhythm and tempo variations that Crow infuses into the album. Crow's idol, Bob Dylan, originally recorded "Mississippi" but was displeased with the result. He gave the song to Crow to record...