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SHERYL CROW Her new CD, C'mon C'mon, bowed at No. 2 last week--the highest Billboard chart position of her career. Crow's $2,699 signature instrument is a replica of a popular Gibson model--a 1962 Country And Western she uses often onstage. It has a distinctive square-shoulder body...
Sheryl Crow's decision to make her fourth album, C'Mon, C'Mon, a paean to classic rock fits her career arc perfectly. Since her debut, Crow has deftly projected herself as a world-weary girl who likes a good time. On her previous album, 1998's brooding The Globe Sessions, the balance between sullen and saucy got out of whack. Here Crow tries to set things right by not bumming anybody out. Starting with the exuberant Steve McQueen, she launches into a relentless pursuit of good times and an echo of her first hit, singing, "I want to rock...
...Henley, Stevie Nicks and Lenny Kravitz (the original rock time traveler) lend vocals and classic chops to C'Mon, C'Mon, but the album doesn't lack veracity. Most tracks feel smothered by the lite discipline Crow imagines is required of an instant classic. Soak Up the Sun is another tribute to high spirits, but as with most of the record, good times and good lyrics prove incompatible. The line "It's not having what you want/It's wanting what you've got," belongs in a high school yearbook. Songs such as You're an Original...
...have all brought with them a personal copy of the Bible and a book of songs, scribble furiously in well-worn journals or Palm Pilots. They receive the speech with laughter, thunderous applause and shouts of “Amen!”, “C’mon now!” and “Help me!” At the end of the sermon, the auditorium erupts in a standing ovation...
...challenge that Harvard met in every way as the game progressed. It was almost as if you could see the team's attitude move from uncertainty to confidence to an overwhelming, "C'MON! WE CAN BEAT THESE GUYS...