{"id":1312817,"date":"2019-07-25T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809503"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:33:57","slug":"questions-we-still-have-about-sheryl-crows-end-all-be-all-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/questions-we-still-have-about-sheryl-crows-end-all-be-all-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions We Still Have About Sheryl Crow\u2019s End-All, Be-All Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 11m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The problem with long-read feature stories that ask a lot of questions is that sometimes, those questions just leave you with even more questions. Such is the case with the new Sheryl Crow story<\/a> in Billboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about her next (and last) album Threads<\/em> due out at the end of August. The one she calls her \u201cend-all, be-all record.\u201d<\/p>\n

So my first questions is, why is it going to be her last?<\/p>\n

My next one is, is it a country album since it\u2019s on a Nashville record label? Crow says of her current deal with Big Machine that everyone at the label has worked, \u201cas my 9-year-old (Levi) says, their man-berries off.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also love to know if the women who she has influenced \u2014 namely Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves \u2014 have influenced her in any way. Musgraves made her last album in Crow\u2019s barn studio, and she recalls what it felt like hearing it for the first time. \u201cWhen I was first hearing it in the barn, I told her I could feel that she was shutting out the world and finding herself. It was so beautiful and brave,\u201d Crow said.<\/p>\n

She talks about her breast cancer battle in 2006, and how it made her want to see what her songs meant to people. \u201cComing out on the other side of having had cancer was liberating, in a weird way. I quit thinking about what people thought. I quit thinking I needed to be productive all the time. I quit putting myself in this box of what life is supposed to look like: fall in love, get married, have babies. I didn\u2019t feel like I was mired down in the muck that I had managed to collect through the years. I dropped a thousand skins.\u201d Did cancer change her perspective on what really mattered?<\/p>\n

Crow also shared that you\u2019re not allowed to be sick of fans singing along to your songs at shows. So does that mean that she\u2019ll keep touring, even after that last album\u2019s been released?<\/p>\n

In the video within the story, Crow says that the first country artist she looked up to was Barbara Mandrell. \u201cShe could play pedal steel and everything,\u201d she says, \u201cso I wanted to be her.\u201d So did Crow ever learn to play pedal steel? (I do know<\/a> that Crow\u2019s mom was David Nail\u2019s piano teacher, so it\u2019s probably safe to assume to whole family has that music gene.)<\/p>\n

Crow also says that \u201cPicture\u201d \u2014 her country collaboration with Kid Rock \u2014 is her go-to karaoke song. And that she\u2019s okay with the fact that their conflicting politics haven\u2019t caused any hard feelings. \u201cPutting out hate messages and vitriol is just never OK. All the people who say, \u2019Shut up and sing,\u2019 on my social media, they\u2019re not going to make me stop or change my mind. My mom has this great saying: \u2019You can\u2019t possibly wish for them to be more miserable than they already are.’\u201d So does that mean that Crow and Kid Rock are still friends?<\/p>\n

Then Crow describes her early days as an artist as kind of lonely ones. \u201cI have a pretty low image of myself, mainly because when I first came out I was totally shunned by my peers \u2014 the Seattle scene, Courtney Love and Beck and R.E.M. and Billy Corgan \u2014 because what I was doing was much more rootsy. You either liked me or you didn\u2019t, and it wasn\u2019t cool to like me. The people who wrote me off way back then have never liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What I have to know now is, is she okay with that?<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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