Word: sheryll
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Princeton: P-Funk, Sheryl Crow and theWallflowers
...Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down" is the album's second single, but its obvious take on Bowie's cabaret-inflected songs on (you guessed it) Hunky Dory fails because it's precisely that--too obvious. Not even Sheryl Crow playing accordion saves the skittering strings and shuffling snare from being unengaging and pedestrian. The last two tracks, "Mockingbird Girl" and "Opposite Octave Reaction," are fuzzed-out noise rockers--cleverly produced, but utterly uncompelling...
Never have they shied away from tackling more sober subjects, Brand New remains clear-eyed about both social injustice and sexual imprudence. "Imagine," an anti-racism track with a surprisingly earthy guest vocal from Sheryl Crow, stands too preciously beside its obvious ancestry in the namesake John Lennon tune to register very strongly. More effective is "The Clock Is Ticking," a rallying cry to abused women with an unaffected awareness of How Bad It Can Get: "You got kids, you got bills/You ain't got skills, you wanna take pills...
...Sheryl McCarthy, also a columnist for Newsday, said she was "impressed by the President's initiative to put aside 15 million dollars to give to non-profits to fight housing discrimination...
METCO Directors, Sheryl Goodloe and Cheryl Prescott, and Jeff Young, superintendent of the Lexington public school system, spoke of the advantages METCO has provided to the participating suburban school communities by increasing minority representation...