Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
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Free Music Review: Wow. Comment on the Amazon.com review
Hit: 5 Stars
This is really an incredible album. I always give credit where credit is due. As in when I used to look at Prince and, with my Jazz and Classically trained musical snobbery, say "How ridiculous..", but then, with age - (and a certain amount of humility) - I came to discover that the man truly knows his music, his style, his performing strengths.
Same goes here for Sheryl Crow. She really puts it out in this album, and she seems to know how - in a strong and confident way.
Thoroughly enjoyable... - which is why I can't understnad the Amazon.com's reviewer's comments. - WAY off base if you ask me.
He must've not been looked at by Sheryl the way he REALLY wanted to be looked at by Sheryl - while attending a Live concert of hers once... Maybe.
His (or her) sophomoric & [what seem to be] personally motivated comments aside, I'd highly recommend this album.
Free Music Review: Excellent album
Hit: 5 Stars
I wasn't a Sheryl Crow fan - until I heard this album. Fantastic work, which has grown on me with successive listens. I'm glad I ignored the Amazon and Spin reviewer comments and listened to the samples - those two reviews are way off base IMO.Free Music Review: Emotionally Charged Garage Record
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a stellar record from Sheryl Crow. I was certainly not expecting this when I first listened to this record. This is one album that is certainly likely to make you think and question your own relationships. Sheryl Crow has such a way with lyrics and they come across beautifully on this record. Such tracks such as "The Difficult Kind", "There Goes The Neighborhood" and "Am I Getting Through Part I & II" are true masterpieces. I love the way that Ms. Crow deviates from her "mainstream" sound on this record. She didn't make this record for the masses, she made it for herself, and that's what true artists are all about. An excellent offering from Ms. Crow. Free Music Review: The Prototypical "Coffee House" Album - with lots of talent
Hit: 4 Stars
In the 1990s, Sheryl Crow established herself as a top female musician in the music industry. In 1994, she came out of nowhere to win the Grammy's Record of the Year award with "All I Wanna Do" from her "Tuesday Night Music Club" album. Two years later, she avoided the sophomore jinx with her self titled album that produced three major hits ("A Change Will Do You Good", "If It Makes You Happy", and "Every Day is a Winding Road". Usually the acid test of the longevity of an artist will come two albums after the first hit album (i.e. the third album). With "The Globe Sessions", Crow takes her place among the rock elite. This album might not have had the number of hits like her self-title album did, but without a doubt this was a critically acclaimed collection. In fact, "The Globe Sessions" would go on to win the Album of the Year award.
The title of the album comes from the fact that Crow recorded this album at Globe Studios in New York City. The album is the culmination of a lot of good work. There are some terrific lyrics and music that was written for this album. Crow probably does some of her best vocals she has done in her career. Although Crow has been surrounded with a very good group of studio musicians, what I find most amazing in the amount of different instruments that she plays on this album. This list goes: Bass Guitar, Organ, Keyboard, Clavinet, Percussion, Acoustic Guitar, National Guitar, Funk Guitar, Electric Guitar, 12 String Electric Guitar, Tambourine, and Harmonica. After seeing all of the instruments she plays in the liner notes, I was completely amazed by the talent of this musician. Another key thing to note is that she basically does all of the vocals in her songs without making a lot of use of background vocalists.
The songs themselves are very good. The best way to sum up the songs is that this album can be considered the "poster child" for "Coffee House Music". This is an alternative rock album that has a lot of different influences. You'll hear blends of rock, country, and traces of funk in the music as well. Crow writes 10 of the 12 tracks. Of those 10 tracks, she co-writes 4 with Jeff Trott (who also is one of the studio musicians). The two remaining tracks are remakes - and very good remakes they are: Bob Dylan's "Mississippi" and Guns and Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine". Sheryl does great justice to the original versions of this song. The "Coffee House" twist to "Sweet Child O' Mine is perfect. (Note: From what I understand, this track was added later to the album).
One of the best known tracks (and a very solid track) is the opening track "My Favorite Mistake". This track fits perfect with the "Coffee House" theme. This track features guitar from Wendy Melvoin - the female guitarist from Prince and the Revolution. The guitar work is very solid in this track, but it also is combined with some solid lyrics about a woman who suspects her man is cheating. "There Goes the Neighborhood" is a track that has some of the funk influence. Sheryl will actually sing some of the verses of the song in the form of a rap. You'll hear Sheryl play the clavinet which makes for a nice feel. There also is some great guitar work in this song.
The rest of the album took me a while to get into, but I did find it started to grow on me the more I listened to it. "Riverwide" is the third track. This could have easily been a folk tune, but it almost was "modernized" to fit the "Coffee House" sound. "It Don't Hurt" is a cross between country and folk, but again follows the formula to fit into a "Coffee House" sound. This is a catchy song and features from neat harmonica from Sheryl.
Two of the better songs are "Am I Getting Through (Part I and II)" and "The Difficult Kind". "Am I Getting Through" is a masterpiece. As the title suggests, there are two parts to the song. In Part 1, Sheryl goes into a bit of psychedelic start to the song. What I think is most amazing is how Sheryl starts the song with a feel of Beatles psychedelica and then when she hits the chorus, it goes into a psychedelica that sounds more like Alanis Morrissette. After about 4 minutes, a telephone busy signal is used to segue Parts 1 and 2. Part 2 has a hard rock acoustic sound and is only a little over a minute long As for "The Difficult Kind" - like "Riverwide" it does have a Folk Sound. This song is one of the few that features background vocals - in this case Sheryl's sister Kathy. This is a powerful song in which Sheryl sings about her fault in a relationship gone bad. When I hear Sheryl's vocals on this song - I think "why isn't she considering a Diva?"
This is also an enhanced CD, but I am sad to report that it did cause many errors when I tried to run it on Windows XP and gave up running it. Although the liner notes do a great job at the credits - there were no lyrics included! I am shocked about this because one of the great strengths of this album is the lyrics! Sheryl Crow has recently released a greatest hits album "The Very Best Of". Considering how good this album is, I am surprised that more songs didn't make it to this album. I highly recommend "The Globe Sessions".
Free Music Review: The best Sheryl Crow record
Hit: 4 Stars
Tuesday Night Music Club is a near disaster most of the way, her self-titled followup is coy and self-congratulatory, but The Globe Sessions is where things go right for Sheryl Crow, finally staking her claim as the pop Rickie Lee Jones for the mid-90's. "It Don't Hurt" and "Anything But Down" are propulsive breakup numbers, "The Difficult Kind" and "Crash and Burn" are gorgeous ballads, and "My Favorite Mistake" remains Crow's most moving and catchy single. Sheryl Crow's brand of music making is still far more marketing than art - her sad songs won't evoke emotion out of you so much as pleasant agreement - but as pop records go, this one's solid.