Product Description

SHERYL CROW The Globe Sessions (1999 US 12-track enhanced CD album including the single My Favourite Mistake & bonus track Sweet Child O Mine plus special screensaver complete with picture sleeve and sealed in the original stickered shrink)

Track Listing

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. Sweet Child O' Mine

Product Details

• Released on: 1999-07-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Enhanced
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 5.75" w x .50" l, .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
For some fairly shallow performers, there comes a time when their craft becomes a chore, when scribbling songs for the big follow-up album turns into a black-and-white deadline. Clever composers can almost disguise this ennui, burying it in a smarmy, sunshine-beaming mix. Key word: almost. Ergo, a trial spin through clever composer Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions evokes the faintest hint of a feeling that grows stronger with each successive listening--there's no sense that the artist intended this material as anything more than tepid album filler. A conversation with your local supermarket checkout girl would prove far more riveting than Crow's pretentious and all-too-casual observations (set to the tune, it must be noted, of some likable, jangly hooks). "Get out the camera, take a picture / The drag queens and the freaks are all out on the town," she purrs over chucka-chucka choogling on "There Goes the Neighborhood," which is probably what any self-respecting drag queen or freak would mutter once Crow moved in, scrounging for her now-patented vicarious cool. The closest The Globe Sessions comes to any palpable sincerity is during an actually-might've-lived-it, whoops-I'm-in-trouble-again "Mississippi." Even then, Crow drowns the moment in perfectly enunciated syllables, more prissy than alleycat-prowling. Crow started out with a credible Tuesday Night Music Club pedigree, surrounded by visionaries such as David Baerwald (For this disc, she relies heavily on ex-Wire Train mainstay Jeff Trott). But they're gone, and things change, to the point where, if you support this silly sycophant with your hard-earned dollars, there's only one question that you'll need to be asked: Do you want paper or plastic? --Tom Lanham

Entertainment Weekly
Even when she admits to insecurity, it's cast as an aside or a pun, as in her watery refrain in "Riverwide," "Don't bail on me." Which isn't to say that The Globe Sessions is unfocused or not catchy. It's a measure of how good The Globe Sessions is...

The Los Angeles Times
...Crow lends her husky, world-wise mezzo to poignant, strikingly personal accounts of troubled and failed love affairs. Not all of these songs are as immediately accessible as the hits from Crow's feisty debut.... But they grow and linger with the spirit of a vital artist pushing herself to evolve.