Sheryl Crow

By Donald Gibson In past years, Sheryl Crow has contributed select performances to various holiday music compilations, most notably to the Special Olympics benefit series, A Very Special Christmas. This year, she has released her first full-length holiday album, Home For Christmas, which is availab...

 OH - Aug 12, 2008 Luckily, things do pick up in the middle; she gets a bit chattier, starts to smile a bit, and by the time you reach "All I Wanna Do", "Soak Up The Sun", ...

By Glen Boyd This also meant that everything about this performance was zeroed in on Adams voice, and his vocal delivery, which, like on the Easy Tiger album, was stronger than on any of his releases I can remember prior to this new album. There are songs from that album I would have loved to hear in a live s...

By Glen Boyd The biggest difference between Easy Tiger and all of the previous Ryan Adams discs for me is just how organic, warm, and natural sounding this record sounds. Not a note of these thirteen great new songs sounds the least bit forced or contrived. Despite the fact that a myriad of influences ran...

By Janine Macdonald This album was a surprise for me, as I expected it to be similar to their other music. In essence it is, yet the album is actually really good too. Like the others, it is filled with ballad style songs, but then the Backstreet Boys are never going to be hard rockers. It's not their style.

By Jon Sobel Polished" isn't a word one is inclined to use in the same sentence as "Todd Snider," and that's as it should be. This rough-edged set has spare rockers ("Barbie Doll," "Cheatham Street Warehouse,") country blues ("Deja Blues"), love songs ("Missing You," "Feel Like I'm Falling In Love,"...

By Josh Hathaway A Happy Belated Easter to all you Easter people from your Listening Room panel. We don't have any “Easter” themed entries in this week's installment. That's kind of a drag, actually. I like when themes emerge. Oh, well, there are plenty more holidays in 2007. Maybe we'll put something together...

By Chancelucky My pal Ryan Seacrest and I met up the other night so he could pick up some chicks. On our way down to the club, there was this guy surrounded by attractive young ladies and I turned to Ryan and said, “Wow, wish I were good looking like that.”Ryan’s eyes went wide and he said, “I wouldn’t know about w...

By David Winchell Near the midpoint of last evening's sold-out concert in Camden, New Jersey, featuring "adult contemporary" artist Sheryl Crow and bluesy rocker John Mayer, I realized I was perhaps not the best person to be reviewing such a performance. As I watched two middle-aged women tango in the nea...