Sheryl Crow - The Trinity Sessions

Somewhere between getting drunk at noon and bumming around with truck drivers and pumping up and getting all blown dried up for the media and becoming a lance Armstrong squeeze, Sheryl Crow visited the sacred Trinity Church in Toronto, home to the seminal Cowboy junkies album The Trinity Sessions. And to paraphrase the great Dave Marsh reviewing Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story: was there ever a time that rock music sounded this easy, this natural?

November of 1998, and Sheryl sets up warm up gigs for herself after recording what is my favorite disc of hers, The Globe Sessions. Playing with an acoustic guitar, Tim Smith accompanying her, and some minimal percussion by a gent named Vegas, SC runs through a couple of quick crowd pleasers before mixing some of the new tracks from the just released Globe Sessions. The joy here is threefold: the outstanding recording direct from the soundboard lets you hear both the ausdience and the fingertips in the strings, SC's self deprecating and genuine between songs chatter, including some messed up intros that would have been edited out of an official live album, and some truly stellar versions of songs that have been, thanks to mid-tempo non-offensive radio, drilled into our heads for the last decade.

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