SHERYL CROW : THE GLOBE SESSIONS

 

  1. My Favorite Mistake
  2. There Goes The Neighborhood
  3. Riverwide
  4. It Don't Hurt
  5. Maybe That's Something
  6. Am I Getting Through (Part I & II)
  7. Anything But Down
  8. The Difficult Kind
  9. Mississippi
  10. Members Only
  11. Crash And Burn
  12. Subway Ride
  13. Resuscitation

Label : A&M Records

Length : 63:33

Release Date : 1998

Review (AllMusic) : Since her dense, varied, postmodernist eponymous second album illustrated that Sheryl Crow was no one-album wonder, she wasn't left with as much to prove the third time around. Having created an original variation on roots rock with Sheryl Crow, she was left with the dilemma of how to remain loyal to that sound without repeating herself on her third album, The Globe Sessions. To her credit, she never plays lazy, not when she's turning out Stonesy rockers ("There Goes the Neighborhood") or when she's covering Dylan (the remarkable "Mississippi," an outtake from Time Out of Mind). However, she has decided to abandon the layered, yard-sale production and pop culture fixations that made Sheryl Crow a defining album of the mid-'90s. The Globe Sessions, instead, is the work of a craftswoman, one who knows how to balance introspective songs with pop/rockers, one who knows how to exploit her signature sound while becoming slightly more eclectic. In that sense, the album is a lot like a latter-day album from her idols, the Stones -- it finds pleasures within the craft and the signature sounds themselves. That means that there are no surprises (apart from the synthesized handclaps, of course). The Celtic homage "Riverwide" may be new, but it's not unexpected, much like how the whiplash transition in "Am I Getting Through" isn't entirely out of the blue. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though, since The Globe Sessions has a strong set of songs. Since it lacks the varied sonics, humor, and flat-out weirdness of Sheryl Crow, it's never quite as compelling a listen as its predecessor, yet it is a strong record, again confirming Crow's position as one of the best roots rockers of the '90s.

Review (Wikipedia) : Na de tour volgend op het succes van het tweede album, trok Sheryl zich terug in haar eigen studio in New York: The Globe. In interviews vertelt ze dat ze depressief was. Dit gevoel is in nummers als 'Am I Getting Through', 'It Don't Hurt' en 'Crash and Burn' goed thuis te brengen. Het album wordt uitgebracht kort na het verbreken van haar relatie met Eric Clapton. Er doen geruchten de ronde dat de eerste single ('My Favorite Mistake') over die relatie gaat, maar Sheryl heeft dit altijd ontkend. Het nummer 'Mississippi' is geschreven door Bob Dylan. Nadat Sheryl het nummer opnieuw had gearrangeerd voor The Globe Sessions nam Dylan het zelf op voor zijn album Love and Theft uit 2001. Aan het einde van 'Crash and Burn' (oorspronkelijk opgenomen als een up-tempo nummer, maar in een langzame versie op het album beland) volgt hidden track 'Subway Ride'. Dit nummer gaat over de afzettingsprocedure tegen Bill Clinton. Achteraf zegt Sheryl dat ze met veel plezier terugdenkt aan de tijd die ze met muzikanten heeft doorgebracht in The Globe. Dit is waarschijnlijk ook de reden waarom ze de oorspronkelijke titel Riverwide op het laatste moment veranderde in The Globe Sessions.