5 Questions with Sheryl Crow
Lili2
married and have children. She isn't and she doesn't.
But the eight-time Grammy winner has accomplished many of her professional
goals — and she's still looking for the right balance between her career and
personal life.
"It's important to have love, give love, receive love. I mean that is
definitely the fish food, and I've had great relationships, and part of the
reason the relationships didn't work out is my career," Crow said while sipping
tea at a Milwaukee hotel restaurant.
Wearing striped aqua jeans, an aqua T-shirt and a jean jacket, the singer was
in town to appear at an outdoor music festival.
She's been promoting the platinum "C'mon C'mon," her first studio album in four
years. The Missouri native has released four albums since she burst onto the
music scene with 1994's "Tuesday Night Music Club."
Crow, who has a bachelor's degree in voice and piano, has worked with some of
the industry's biggest names: Kid Rock, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Stevie
Nicks, for whom she produced five songs on her new album. "C'mon C'mon"
features guest vocals by Don Henley, Lenny Kravitz, Emmylou Harris and Dixie
Chick Natalie Maines.
She'll be on tour throughout the year, including selected dates opening for the
Rolling Stones.
1. How does it feel to work with stars of the '60s and '70s?
Crow: It feels kind of otherworldly, you know what I mean, because I can
totally register in my body how it felt to go to the Blakemore drugstore and
pick up Cream Magazine and Rolling Stone and just pore over pictures of Stevie
Nicks and Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles and Bob Dylan and scrutinize pictures
of Led Zeppelin, you know, right down to the tight jeans. It's pretty
unbelievable.
2. How has success changed you?
Crow: It has become a part of my life I have had to manage. And because of
that, my personal life has also become something I have had to manage, which
sounds simple, but it's weird when you have to start managing having a life
around what you do. ... Like on this last record, I think I just thought I
really didn't want to do it anymore because it seemed to me the only thing I
had anymore was my career, and it made me not want to do it. But I think that
all the growing that you do eventually you are going to do anyway, and the
circumstances in your life are put into your life to teach you what it is you
are meant to learn in this life.
3. Are you dating anybody?
Crow: I am dating somebody. Nobody would even know him though. He's not in the
business. He's a lovely person, but you know it's totally new and it's just
sort of still out there. I always like to keep my private life private. I just
thought I would divulge that information just in case there's anybody out there
who is worried about me, that I'm lonely or something.
4. In 10 years, will you still be making records?
Crow: And making videos? (Laughs.) I don't know about the video part of it but
I do see that. ... I think looking at Emmy (Emmylou Harris)'s career, she is
sort of the template for me. I feel like I haven't written my best work yet,
and you know that's encouraging for me and that's why I do it. I do at this
point in my life feel like I'm at a place where if I didn't do it anymore, I
could be OK with that too.
5. Is it true you knocked out your two front teeth?
Crow: I knocked them out twice. When I was 8, I ran into some steel scaffolding
and knocked them right to the back of my mouth, but they saved them and they
were root-canaled and capped. And then I was singing in a top 40 band in St.
Louis and a waitress knocked my teeth out with a beer mug, kind of by accident.
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remaking her image.
Manny King
I saw her on Musicians on Bravo and when the host asked her to play a song,
she said "on piano or guitar?". Pretty impressive. Then I heard that moronic
"Soak up the Sun" on the radio and thought "what a waste of talent"
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Tina
I saw her on Musicians on Bravo and when the host asked her to play a song,
she said "on piano or guitar?". Pretty impressive. Then I heard that moronic
"Soak up the Sun" on the radio and thought "what a waste of talent"
>>
I'm sure after been a starving musician for years, having a hit song, even if
its a dumb one, is still money in the bank. Hopefully the dumb songs won't
become a continuing trend with her.
Blinky
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> MILWAUKEE (AP) - Sheryl Crow thought that by the time she reached 40 she'd be
> married and have children. She isn't and she doesn't.
>
>
> Crow: I knocked them out twice. When I was 8, I ran into some steel
scaffolding
> and knocked them right to the back of my mouth, but they saved them and they
> were root-canaled and capped. And then I was singing in a top 40 band in St.
> Louis and a waitress knocked my teeth out with a beer mug, kind of by
accident.
Question 6: I saw that crummy summer surf song or whatever and the question is
obvious: What the hell did you do to your face? Did your old pal Michael
Jackson give you his plastic surgeon's number?
Jennifer Lyon
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"Manny King" <mk...@aol.com> wrote:
> And dumbing down her music.
>
> I saw her on Musicians on Bravo and when the host asked her to play a
> song,
> she said "on piano or guitar?". Pretty impressive. Then I heard that
> moronic
> "Soak up the Sun" on the radio and thought "what a waste of talent"
Sheryl Crow needs to release another song from that album. The
radio has been playing "Soak Up the Sun" for months now. It
definitely is not one of her better songs, and I don't think
playing it over and over again is selling the album. Even when
people like a song, it's not enough to make them go out and buy a
whole CD. The music biz gurus should go back to the old system of
releasing 3 or 4 songs from each album as singles.
Tina
album. The
radio has been playing "Soak Up the Sun" for months now. It
definitely is not one of her better songs, and I don't think
playing it over and over again is selling the album. Even when
people like a song, it's not enough to make them go out and buy a
whole CD. The music biz gurus should go back to the old system of
releasing 3 or 4 songs from each album as singles.
>>
I agree wholeheartedly....I think any song can be overplayed to death. For
instance, I loved Santana's Supernatural cd but got so friggin sick of hearing
that "Smooth" song with Rob Thomas I can't even listen to it anymore.
piscesrr
Tina wrote:
Blame that on the radio station(s) you listened to. The songs
on Supernatural stretched across several genres, so to hear the
songs beyond "Smooth" I had to surf almost a dozen different
stations to find the other songs.
Phoenix
@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, mk...@aol.com
says...
> And dumbing down her music.
>
> I saw her on Musicians on Bravo and when the host asked her to play a song,
> she said "on piano or guitar?". Pretty impressive. Then I heard that moronic
> "Soak up the Sun" on the radio and thought "what a waste of talent"
Crow also plays accordion and banjo. Talented
woman, too bad she's selling out.
bel
Tina
the
songs beyond "Smooth" I had to surf almost a dozen different
stations to find the other songs. >>
Well i got around it by just buying the cd and enjoying all the songs. Its a
great CD IMHO.
Lili2
>album. The
>radio has been playing "Soak Up the Sun" for months now. It
>definitely is not one of her better songs, and I don't think
>playing it over and over again is selling the album. Even when
>people like a song, it's not enough to make them go out and buy a
>whole CD. The music biz gurus should go back to the old system of
>releasing 3 or 4 songs from each album as singles.
> >>
"Steve McQueen" is getting a lot of radio airplay now. You can only get the
single as an import. US labels won't release singles anymore....they are
afraid it will take away from their album sales. They've forgotten that if you
put unreleased tracks or remixes the exact same fan base will buy both the
album and the single! Or at least you'll turn on someone who wouldn't have
bought either! But I guess that is why those executives make the big bucks....
Plead the 5th
with "high cerebral tastes",all I can say is...(SING ALONG)"I wan-na
soak up the suuunn...I want every-one to light-en up"!!!! BG
Lord Baltimore
For those who care Crow will be on Big Brother 3 coming this week
doing a concert for the house guests.
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Sprucedale
surprise for the hamsters (aka the houseguests) on "Big Brother 3" this
week??
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MLYoung
>with "high cerebral tastes",all I can say is...(SING ALONG)"I wan-na
>soak up the suuunn...I want every-one to light-en up"!!!! BG
Oh, man, I find that song so *boring*.
Every measure sounds the same.
--margaret