Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club LP

Credit where credit’s due, I was first introduced to Sheryl Crow by my girlfriend last summer driving to and from the beach in her car, Tuesday Night Music Club being one of a few CDs on rotation. Sure, I’d heard All I Wanna Do on the radio, but I hadn’t really LISTENED to it til then. All I wanna say is, what an album!!!

Much respect to Sheryl Crow and whoever sequenced TNMC for starting it with one of the most overwrought couplets in modern pop history (and the clunkiest on the album by far - “I was born in November 1963 / The day Aldous Huxley died”) but something about those opening lines seem to orient the whole thing as an record reflecting on the failed legacy of 60s countercultural optimism coming off the back of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Is this the highest selling LP about the Fall Of America of all time???

It’s unfortunate that songs this good don’t reach  stratospheric chart heights anymore. Who the hell in the top 40 has released a song as good as any of these in recent years?? Really it feels as though Crow’s legacy is carried through a tier of our favourite independent musicians in the US at the moment, from the crafted and intricate observations and characters of Ryan Davis’ songs to the direct honesty of Rosali’s.

All timer!!! –Mitch