Biography of Sheryl Crow
After many years of paying her dues as a backup singer for Don Henley, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and Michael Jackson, Sheryl Crow finally got a chance to make her own album in 1993. Growing out of a series of informal jam sessions with L.A. studio veterans, the relaxed yet gritty blues-rock of Tuesday Night Music Club became a hit in the Spring of 1994, thanks to the single "Leaving Las Vegas," a slightly surreal travelogue which only shows the beginning of her talent. Later that summer, the laidback "All I Want to Do" was released and it became an across-the-boards success, pushing Tuesday Night Music Club into the Top Ten and into multi-platinum status. Her 1996 self-titled follow-up was also hugely successful, and was followed two years later by The Globe Sessions. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine