Sheryl Crow

The best Sheryl Crow songs have three characteristics: they sound a little like something you've heard before; the guitars and drums are recorded with an ear to the magic tricks of the '70s; and the songs are always fun to sing along with, thanks to her almost perfect rasp. Wildflower is full of what makes Crow an enjoyable artist.

Now that Sheryl Crow is forty-three and cheerfully domestic with Lance Armstrong, she
says she's tired of striving for hit singles -- but there's one buried on Wildflower anyway.
"Live It Up" is classic up-tempo Crow: There's a catchy melody, an appealingly husky vocal,
a chorus built around a cliche ("like there's no tomorrow") and other lyrics that show she
can be more clever than the chorus (rhyming "inherently self-conscious" with "r... More >