Her first album, “Tuesday Night Music Club” (1993), was named after the consortium of L.A. But the darkness wasn’t going to let her go.
FUTURE FIGHT THESE DEMONS SONG FREE
With the help of her friend and future manager, Scooter Weintraub, Crow was able to shake herself free of DiLeo’s grip. For Crow, this was a nightmare, one that sunk her into the first of several stressed-out depressions. (You might explain that by saying: That’s how great a singer Sheryl Crow is.) The media attention thrust Crow into the spotlight, but things went awry when Jackson’s manager, Frank DiLeo, a fearsome figure with underworld connections (so authentic was his gangster aura that he was later cast in “GoodFellas”), told Crow that he wanted to manage her as well - and tried to force the issue, all as a form of sexual harassment. Her first big break was landing a spot as a backup singer on Michael Jackson’s 1987 tour, and she was already so self-possessed that when she was moved, in her big hair and spandex dress, to center stage to sing the nightly duet with Michael on “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” the tabloid press went wild, convinced that she and Jackson were having an affair. 'American Idol' Sets a Dozen Stars to Perform on Finale, Including Luke Combs, Chaka Khan, Sheryl Crowīarry Gibb Duet With Jason Isbell Previews Americana/Country Album With Brandi Carlile, Keith Urban, Dolly Parton, Gillian Welch dawn after a night of partying.Īrthur Gunn Breaks Silence on 'American Idol' Finale No-Show My favorite line of hers has always been the one that comes after “All I wanna do is have some fun…” - namely, “until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard.” With her starburst smile and electrifying vocal bravado (which was always rock with a drop of country, befitting someone who came from “the bootheel of Missouri”), Sheryl Crow was someone you could imagine standing against the rising L.A. She was at the forefront of a revolutionary wave of women in pop - the Lilith Fair generation, from Alanis Morrisette to Sarah McLachlan to Shawn Colin to Paula Cole - but she was also, you could argue, one of the last great rockers to work in the heart-on-the-sleeve, guitar-riffs-on-air tradition of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. But even back in the ’90s, Sheryl Crow was the kind of straight-up, middle-of-the-strike-zone, tasty-licks virtuoso of rock ‘n’ roll good times who seemed to have been put on earth to make people happy.
The pop-music world, in many ways, has only gotten angstier (it would be hard to imagine a mood-poet chanteuse like Billie Eilish commanding arenas 20 years ago).
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