From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V2 #113 Reply-To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Sender: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sheryl-crew-digest Tuesday, April 27 1999 Volume 02 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Minus Man [Libraxx13@aol.com] Sheryl on Melrose [SonicTonix@aol.com] Re: Sheryl's Offical Fan club address [Harinder_GREWAL@MCD.gov.sg] meeting [Libraxx13@aol.com] Re: Off: Stuck in the Middle with You ["Martin Oliver" Subject: Re: Off: Stuck in the Middle with You I don't want to be picky, but it was written by Gerry Rafferty & Joe Egan who were Stealers Wheel with a variety of backing musicians Regards Martin - -----Original Message----- From: Stephen To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:50 AM Subject: Re: Off: Stuck in the Middle with You >At 09:31 PM 4/26/99 -0500, Josh wrote: >>A friend of mine wanted to know who originally did (or made famous at >>least) the song "Stuck in the Middle with You." > >It was written by Gerry Rafferty and performed by his group Stealers Wheel. > >See http://www.redstone-tech.com/gerry/lyrics/gr_s11.htm > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:21:56 EDT From: FadedSign@aol.com Subject: Vote for Sheryl they are voting for the top 400 musicians/songs of all time, so if ya got a minute, give sheryl a vote http://cgi.pathfinder.com/ew/fab400/music100/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:59:19 -0500 (CDT) From: crowfan@webtv.net (crowfan .) Subject: Aug 26th 1999 Oh yeah Lilith is comming here to Kansas CIty on Aug 26th!!!!! A DJ on the radio just said it!! THey are making the tour dates avaible right now !!! Oh my gawd!! You know what is cool about that date tho? On august 26th 1997 sheryl was here so now exactly 2 years later she is comming back! How cool is that??????? I am so excited!!!! angie ============================ Remember Kids Sheryl Rocks!!! ============================ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:19:49 EDT From: MarrekJ@aol.com Subject: Re: sheryl-crew-digest V2 #109 Oh Christina, how could you say such a thing about TGTN??!! It is a cracking video! I am actually biased though because without that video I wouldn't have actually got into Sheryl so it can't be that bad. I could understand why some people wouldn't like it though. It is very in-your-face and vibrant. This is the reason why I got into it then bought the single, but, hey! It's brought me to Sheryl! >>I have seen TGTN a gillion times and let me tell you, you aren't missing anything, to tell you the truth it is one of the only Sheryl vids that I have difficulty sitting through, I think it was such a ridiculous video, the director should have been fired! And that's all I have to say about that!>> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:57:41 EDT From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: Re: Aug 26th 1999 I just went to the Lilith Fair site and it's coming here Aug 17 (whooooooo hooooooo!!) I have never went to lilith because I did'nt like any of the artists who were playing with exception of Sarah, but this year's seems cool. The headliners are going to be Sheryl, Sarah, Dixie Chicks (hmm don't like country, but i'll give them a chance) & Deborah Cox (eh i could take her or leave her). Susan Tedeschi is going to be on the 2nd show and she's kinda cool (thanx Michele for letting me hear some of her stuff) so I'm defineitely going to be checking this concert out :P . Almost forgot www.lilithfair.com has all of the dates today, so you can get info about them here. Hehe Aug 26 99 that's when Brittney Spears is coming here, yuck... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:08:55 -0400 From: mlucas@fund.bisys.com Subject: toledo Is anyone in the "crew" going to the Toledo, Ohio show tomorrow night (4/28)? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 03:35:09 EDT From: SCFANCLUB2@aol.com Subject: New York Daily News Article From: New York Now | Music | Sunday, April 25, 1999 The View From Crow's Perch Sheryl Crow finally feels secure as superstar By JIM FARBER Daily News Staff Writer Spend time with Sheryl Crow and she'll talk about the romance in her life, her work habits, her home and, most certainly, her latest songs. Yet none of these subjects inflames her passions as much as the recent, radical changes in the music industry — changes that have left her as part of a unique breed. Sheryl Crow Lately, Crow has arisen as one of the few artists of the '90s to prosper from proper nurturing, unlike most of her contemporaries, who get the bum 's rush in favor of next year 's musical flavor. "I was lucky," she says, "I had the opportunity to get better. It's not like that now. It 's all about money and numbers. It makes the music more predictable and leaves the artists frenzied. "When I was signed to A&M," she continues, "they were one of the last of the little labels to really let you develop your craft. When Seagrams bought all the labels [last fall], that was really the end of an era. " She describes her new affiliation in the giant Seagrams/Universal Group as "more corporate. A&M was my home. I could just pop in and pop out." Not that her new home would risk fiddling with her success. "Let 's face it," she says. "I 'm at a point now where I 'm left to my own devices. " Finally on a Fast Track Crow dodged an uncommon number of bullets to earn that privilege. Only with her third and latest album, "The Globe Sessions," has she fully established herself as an artist with a consistent track record, marked by escalating critical esteem and reliably huge sales. At 37, she finds herself in prestigious company, dueting with Willie Nelson at the Johnny Cash salute one day, singing with the likes of Emmylou Harris on a Gram Parsons tribute album the next. While earlier in her career Crow had to spend nearly every day on the road, now she calls the shots on when she tours. The "Globe Sessions" LP came out last fall, but Crow didn 't begin her road show until last month. Beginning this Saturday, she brings the show to the Beacon Theater for three sold-out nights. The shows give Crow her first opportunity to sing new songs before a local crowd, to perform in public the most personal material of her career. "There are a lot of songs you write in your bedroom or on the tour bus that will only be for you to hear," she says. "It just so happens I decided to put mine on a record." Her album reflects "the five or six years of me being on the road, my quick run to the top and my quick climb back down, and all the relationships that suffered along the way." While lovelorn songs dominate the album, they don 't address any one person. "If you consider that I was on the road for over five years, I was involved with a lot of different people [during that time]. In fact, I was engaged to be married to one person I deeply loved." The collapse of that relationship was the low point of the troubled time period chronicled by the LP. While Crow always had the backing of A&M, she faced an uncommonly tough struggle to be taken seriously after her commercial breakthrough with "Tuesday Night Music Club " in 1994. She won the top Grammys for "All I Wanna Do " and sold over 4 million copies of that album, but the fact that four or five writers shared credit on each cut raised eyebrows about Crow 's actual input. Worse, several of those writers met tragic ends, including Kevin Gilbert, who died of autoerotic asphyxiation, and John O 'Brien, who committed suicide, casting a depressing pall over Crow 's success, and stoking a morbid curiosity in the press. "I didn 't feel like I had a leg to stand on in defending myself because it would only make me seem suspiciously on the defensive, " Crow explains. "I felt that people were credited fairly on the album. Other people made more money on that album than I did. I just grew tired of the cattiness and the smallness of people being jealous. In the end, quietly, all those people came around and apologized to me, but it was too late. It didn 't get into the press." Too Much Sheryl? Crow feels she also suffered from a backlash due to overexposure. "It 's the nature of the beast. Like Matthew McConaughey. I look at that and think, ‘Here 's this guy who became really successful and all of a sudden he 's on the cover of Time magazine and every other magazine and then nobody even wants to get near him.' "When you 're exposed, you become suspect. People are really quick to throw away their heroes because it provides some satisfaction. I took it personally." She used her frustration to fuel a new creative peak on her followup album in 1996. Crow produced the album herself, titled it simply with her own name and wrote three of the songs alone. Beating the sophomore jinx, Crow 's second album earned even better reviews than her first, racked up the hit singles "If It Makes You Happy " and "Every Day Is a Winding Road " — and went on to sell over 2 million copies. For the latest "Globe Sessions " LP, she again handled the production, employed just one co-writer (Jeff Trott) and penned no fewer than five pieces herself. Crow took a full year off the road to develop the record. And she changed her home base, from L.A. to N.Y., moving to the quietest part of the West Village and recording in the remote Meat Packing District. "I used to live on Greenwich and Bank and I found this really great space that was already a studio right across from Hogs & Heifers, but they didn't have all that gear, " Crow explains. "I had the gear. So I formed a bond with the owner. It 's still running as a studio. It was a great way to record because I could go in to work and then go home just five blocks away. " Crow says the neighborhood 's character, with its transvestite hookers and sex clubs, seeped into the record. "The frenetic energy buzzing outside made a difference, " she says. Crow made specific mention of transvestites in "There Goes the Neighborhood. " She lionized a similar character in an earlier song, "Hard to Make a Stand. " "[People who] are different are hard for people to embrace, " she says. "They try to make it freakish. I went against that. " The accessibility of colorful characters in New York proved a major draw for Crow in remaining in the city. (She now lives in a Noho loft.) "In New York, you can walk out and be amongst people all the time. You can go out to dinner at 1:30 in the morning, which is great for people like me. In L.A. it 's harder to make friends. It 's more isolating. You have to be in a car and make plans. In New York, you can be more spontaneous. " As much as she enjoyed her new recording environment, the album didn't come easy. Crow felt even more internal pressure with this record than even the last one, though that had to follow up a monster hit. "The old adage is that your third album is your creative statement, " she explains. "That became very daunting for me. Midway through the process it hit me very hard. I had to take a break. " A kick-start came after a call from Bob Dylan 's manager, who said the legend had one song, "Mississippi, " left over from his last album. Would Crow like a crack at it? "It was perfect for me, " she says. "It came along and fit right in. " The fact that Crow 's style fits right in with the top-flight artists of an earlier generation no doubt explains why so many big names have sought her out. At her last New York show, members of the Band turned up as special guests. And she has toured with the likes of Eric Clapton, the Stones and the Eagles. In fact, Crow may be the only artist in her 30s to sell millions of records based on the approach of the '70s singer-songwriter. Most other, newer artists who keep that tradition alive get ghettoized in the alt-country world, appealing to select fans in their 30s and 40s. "I think there 's a lot of great songs and melodies out there. They 're just not getting played," she says. "You 've got artists like Steve Earle and Gillian Welch who aren 't exploding commercially." Crow may have the sales clout they lack, but at the same time she has been thinking ahead, carving out a second career as a producer. Besides overseeing her own work, she 'll produce the next Stevie Nicks album. The two met when Nicks recorded a Crow song a few years back for the "Boys on the Side" soundtrack. The singer takes particular pride in her Grammy nomination this year for Best Producer. No woman had ever made it into that category before 1997, when Paula Cole broke the ceiling. This year, a woman (Lauryn Hill) won for the first time. Movie Role She also plans to expand her career with her first acting role, in Dwight Yoakam's new movie, "Minus Man," to be released later this year. She plays an addict. "I 've always wanted to be a junkie but I never wanted to do the drugs," she says. For all the hard-won respect Crow now commands, she can still find herself asked by reporters about things like her hair. At February 's Grammys, where Crow won the award for Best Rock Album, the backstage questions centered on her new shorter locks. "I was a little surprised at how many women were asking me about this. Ingrates!" she says with a laugh. "I can 't figure out why it 's such a major deal. When Julia Roberts cut her hair it was like her career was over. Now she has to wear hair extensions for the next three movies." Settling Down? Crow herself is concentrating on more serious things. Now that she 's finally at an enviable place in her career, she has personal goals to fulfill. Last summer, she began dating writer/actor Owen Wilson (co-author of the "Rushmore" script). She 'd like to be married at one point and ultimately have kids. And though she worries if that ever will happen, she asserts with a hopeful sigh, "I 'm just going to take it as it comes. I know where I 'm going to be at 1 o 'clock this afternoon. After that," she trails off. Anything can happen. Original Publication Date: 04/25/1999 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:28:15 EDT From: SCFANCLUB2@aol.com Subject: Lilith Fair 1999 Tour dates Sheryl is confirmed for the following Lilith dates this summer (she'll be co-headling with Sarah, and will perform for the entire run, except for one date that coincides with Woodstock 99): July 8, Vancouver, BC @ Thunderbird Stadium (On sale May 22) July 9, Seattle, WA @ The Gorge (On sale May 22) July 10, Seattle, WA @ The Gorge (On sale May 22) July 11, Portland, OR @ Civic Stadium (On sale May 22) July 13, San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre (On Sale May 23) July 14, San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre (On sale May 23) July 16, San Diego, CA @ Coors Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) July 17, Los Angeles, CA @ Rose Bowl (On sale May 23) July 18, Phoenix, AZ @ Desert Sky Pavillion (On sale May 22) July 20, Austin, TX @ South Park Meadows (On sale May 22) July 21, Dallas, TX @ Starplex Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) July 24, Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood (On sale May 22) July 25, Nashville, TN @ First American Music Center (On sale May 22) July 27, Charlotte, NC @ Blockbuster Pavillion (On sale May 22) July 28, Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavillion (On sale May 22) July 30, Philadelphia, PA @ Entertainment Center (On sale May 22) July 31, Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium (On sale May 22) August 1, Buffalo, NY @ Finger Lakes Performing Arts Centre (On sale May 22) Aug 3, Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center (On sale May 22) Aug 4, Hartford, CT @ The Meadows (On sale May 22) Aug 6, New York, NY @ Jones Beach (On Sale May 8) Aug 7, Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center (On Sale May 1) Aug 8, Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center (On sale May 1) Aug 10, Columbus, OH @ Polaris Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 11, Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 13, Pittsburgh, PA @ Star Lake Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) August 14, Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob (On sale May 22) Aug 15, Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob (On sale May 22) Aug 17, Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center (On sale May 22) Aug 18, Indianapolis, IN @ Deer Creek (on sale May 15) Aug 19, Chicago, IL @ The World (On sale May 22) Aug 21, Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 22, Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 24, Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 25, Minneapolis, MN @ Canterbury Park (On sale May 21) Aug 26, Bonner Springs, KS @ Sandstone Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 28, Denver, CO @ Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 29, Denver, CO @ Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre (On sale May 22) Aug 31, Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium (On sale May 22) ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V2 #113 *********************************