Sheryl Crow - Home Concerts, West Nashville, TN, 3-18-2020 to 8-15-2020

So how has Sheryl Crow been keeping herself musically busy during the coronavirus pandemic? In terms of public output, she hasn't been nearly as productive as some others, for instance Norah Jones. But she has done some things here and there. It's taken six months, but I finally have enough material to post an acoustic home concert album from her.

The emphasis here is on "acoustic." Crow has generally posted two kinds of performances. One are the acoustic versions presented here. She did a bunch in the early days of the pandemic, generally posting them on her Facebook page. More recently, she's done a smaller number, usually for TV or Internet shows.

Two, she's posted full band performances. In them, she's involved a bunch of backing musicians, with everyone recording their parts remotely and then joining them together through audio software. I haven't included any of those for two reasons. One, if you've been following this blog, you probably know I'm an especially big fan of acoustic music, so I'm especially interested in those versions. But two, the full band performances are of songs already on her albums, and the versions are very close to the album versions, so I don't see much point to them.

It's different with these acoustic performances. A couple of them are covers of songs she's never done before. I'm especially thinking of "Willow Weep for Me," and "All You Need Is Love," the classic Beatles song. But her acoustic performances are nearly all just her, usually on guitar but sometimes on piano, and thus have to be vastly different than the album versions. So that makes them way more interesting, in my book.

One partial exception to that is her version of "All You Need Is Love." She overdubbed herself playing multiple instruments, and added her own backing vocals too. But I still consider it an acoustic performance since all the instruments are acoustic and the drumming is light. Even so, I put it at the end, out of chronological order, since it is a bit different than the others.

I almost didn't include the song "God Bless This Mess." The problem is that she recorded that one outside, and there was a ton of wind. I edited it some to patch in repetitive parts from less wind affected parts of the song. But I could only do so much, since some parts didn't repeat. In the end I decided to include it, since the sound quality is as good as the others, except for the occasional windy sections.

There is one bonus track, of her song "Home." It's a rare piano only version of the song, so it's worthy of inclusion. But unfortunately, the sound quality is poor. Thus it only makes it as a bonus track.

01 talk (Sheryl Crow)
02 Drunk with the Thought of You (Sheryl Crow)
03 talk (Sheryl Crow)
04 Weather Channel (Sheryl Crow)
05 talk (Sheryl Crow)
06 God Bless This Mess [Edit] (Sheryl Crow)
07 talk (Sheryl Crow)
08 The Difficult Kind (Sheryl Crow)
09 talk (Sheryl Crow)
10 Make It Go Away (Sheryl Crow)
11 I Shall Believe (Sheryl Crow)
12 talk (Sheryl Crow)
13 Flying Blind (Sheryl Crow)
14 talk (Sheryl Crow)
15 Beware of Darkness (Sheryl Crow)
16 talk (Sheryl Crow)
17 Willow Weep for Me (Sheryl Crow)
18 Leaving Las Vegas (Sheryl Crow)
19 All You Need Is Love (Sheryl Crow)

Home (Sheryl Crow)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15285298/SherylC_2020_HomeConcrtsWestNashvilleTN__3-18-2020_to_8-15-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover art is taken from her performance of "Beware of Darkness" (the George Harrison song) on the TV show "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."