Sheryl Crow’s 100 Miles From Memphis Out Today!
Posted by taylor blue on July 20, 2010
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Sheryl Crow‘s seventh album, 100 Miles From Memphis, is out today! The name isn’t just a location but a state of mind too.
“I grew up in a small town 100 miles from Memphis, and that informed not only my musical taste, but how I look at life,†she says. “The drive to Memphis is all farmland, and everyone is community-oriented, God-fearing people, connected to the earth. The music that came out of that part of the world is a part of who I am, and it’s the biggest inspiration for what I do and why I do it.â€
This is a return for Sheryl who has been away from music for a while.
“This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,†says Crow. “When (manager Scooter Weintraub) first started working with me twenty years ago, what he heard in me was that I had heavy influences from the South—Delaney and Bonnie, all the Stax records. So for years he’s been asking me, ‘When are you going to make that record?’â€
The album itself has the addictive Sheryl Crow sound it has slinky grooves and rolling rhythms. My favorite song has to be Summer Day. It’s one of those songs that could easily become my song of the day that I play on repeat for the whole day so I can learn every part of the song. Sheryl says that she was going for the the glory-days of AM pop with that song.
“I wanted to experiment with writing something simple and positive,†says Crow. “The feeling of a great, solid love—not just a new love, but something everlasting.â€
The whole album is amazing! You have to hear the rest of it for sure. It’s the best one yet.
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