The Very Best of Sheryl Crow

by Sheryl Crow

Overview

This 16-track collection spans Sheryl Crow's career, including high points such as the No. 1 hit "All I Wanna Do," alongside other top 10 singles and unreleased tracks. The deluxe package comes in a special Digi-pak that includes the greatest hits CD, plus a DVD featuring a dozen Sheryl Crow videos.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/04/2003
Label:	A&M
UPC:	0602498611548
catalogNumber:	000152102
Rank:	161439

Tracks

1. All I Wanna Do
2. Soak Up the Sun
3. Favorite Mistake
4. First Cut Is the Deepest
5. Everyday Is a Winding Road
6. Leaving Las Vegas
7. Strong Enough
8. Light in Your Eyes
9. If It Makes You Happy
10. The Difficult Kind
11. Picture
12. Steve McQueen
13. A Change Will Do You Good
14. Home
15. There Goes the Neighborhood
16. I Shall Believe

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sheryl Crow   Primary Artist,Acoustic Guitar,Piano,Bass Guitar,Vocals,Background Vocals,12-string Guitar
Matt Rollings   Piano
Kid Rock   Rhythm Guitar,Vocals
Joel Derouin   Concert Master
Shannon Forrest   Drums
Paul Franklin   Steel Guitar
Abraham Laboriel   Drums
Jamie Muhoberac   Keyboards
Kenny Olson   Guitar
Michael Rhodes   Bass Guitar
Shirley Hayden   Background Vocals
John Shanks   Bass,Electric Guitar,Background Vocals
Tom Bukovac   Electric Guitar
Jimmie Bones   Keyboards
Misty Love   Background Vocals

Technical Credits

David Baerwald   Composer
Yusuf (Cat Stevens)   Composer
Kid Rock   Producer
Sheryl Crow   Composer,Producer
Bill Bottrell   Composer,Producer
Marc DeSisto   Engineer
Garth Fundis   Producer
Kevin Gilbert   Composer
David Ricketts   Composer
Sutton   Engineer
Jeff Trott   Composer,Producer
Patrick Warren   String Arrangements
David Wild   Liner Notes
John Shanks   Composer,Producer
Matt Andrews   Engineer
Wyn Cooper   Composer
Jeff Rothschild   Engineer
Robert J. Ritchie   Composer
Brian Macleod   Composer
C. Stevens   Composer

Editorial Reviews

Sheryl Crow was one of the key artists of the '90s, if the yardstick is capturing the sound and spirit of the time. A former backing vocalist for Michael Jackson -- an association that led to dubious tabloid headlines romantically linking her with the singer long before she was a star in her own right -- she rode the first great wave of Women in Rock hysteria of the alt-rock explosion to fame with her first album, Tuesday Night Music Club, in 1994, settling into the weary aftermath of the post-grunge years with her brilliant eponymous second album in 1996, riding out the end years of the Clinton administration with the measured, mature Globe Sessions in 1998, and then defying the gloom of the W years by soaking up the sun on 2002's C'mon C'mon. It was a body of work that defined the times without getting too much critical respect (similar to Billy Joel in that respect, even if the music is totally dissimilar), and while her albums were always good and occasionally terrific, she made her greatest mark as a singles artist on the ever-morphing world of '90s radio. Released in late 2003, The Very Best of Sheryl Crow is the first attempt to summarize those years, and it does a pretty good job of it. All of the big hits are here: the deceptively effervescent "All I Wanna Do," the defiantly effervescent "Soak Up the Sun," the sweet resignation of "My Favorite Mistake," the giddy "Everyday Is a Winding Road," the evocative "Leaving Las Vegas," the sexily exhausted "If It Makes You Happy," the soccer-mom anthem "A Change Would Do You Good," the absurd escapism of the heavily Pro Tooled "Steve McQueen," and best of all, "Picture," a superb country duet with Kid Rock previously unavailable on any of Crow's albums. If the collection seems to be missing songs, it's because it is. Like most contemporary hits collection, it chooses to highlight album tracks ("Home," "The Difficult Kind," "I Shall Believe") in lieu of minor hits -- a tactic that is highly debatable, since those album tracks may be favorites of the artist or the concert-attending audience yet those who follow an artist via the radio will find many songs absent, some more noteworthy than others. In this case, "Run Baby Run," "Can't Cry Anymore," "D'yer Mak'er," "Anything but Down," "Sweet Child O Mine," and "C'Mon C'Mon" are all missing in action, with "Can't Cry Anymore," "Anything but Down," and maybe "Run Baby Run" being truly missed (the covers of Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses being the byproduct of the '90s pop climate where major and minor artists alike had more contributions to soundtracks, benefit albums, and tribute records than could be counted; some hit the charts, as in this case, but most didn't). This is a minor quibble, since it effects the general texture and feel of the album more than the overall effect, but it's enough to keep it from being the unqualified home run that it should have been. Even so, The Very Best of Sheryl Crow does capture her biggest and best songs, adding two good new songs to the mix (a cover of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut Is the Deepest," which uses Rod Stewart's version as the starting point, and the solid new song "Light in Your Eyes"), that in turn capture the feel of the '90s by proxy.

All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Maybe because she's older than most of her early-'90s femme-rock peers, Sheryl Crow's work has also aged better.

Blender - James Slaughter

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