Sheryl Crow

Crow's second LP finds her exploring the 1970s rock tradition with a closer ear than ever before or since, and she comes up with an album that fits just as well next to your Mazzy Star records as it does next to Steve Miller's Best Of. Or maybe Crow's disc is more like a combination of Miller and Mazzy. Who cares? It's got "If It Makes You Happy," so sing along.

Sheryl crow has paid some labor-intensive dues (backup singing, studio work, cutting an
entire debut album for A&M that got shit-canned), and even the comely
Hollywood-hootenanny fluff of Tuesday Night Music Club had an insouciant charm to it. But
based on Sheryl Crow's lite coat of blues-rock grease and the vampish portraits in the CD
booklet, Crow wants us to believe that she has toughened into a trailer-park roc... More >