Sheryl Crow - Happy - Non-Album Tracks (1992-1993)

Let's talk about what's on the album. Maybe what's most surprising to me is what's NOT on it. In 1992, Crow had her very first solo album all ready to go. But her record company rejected it, and all the songs on it remain officially unreleased until this day. However, it has been bootlegged with fine sound quality. Unfortunately, I've listened to it and I can see why the record company rejected it, because it simply isn't very good. In fact, it's so lackluster that I'm amazed Crow managed to put out the excellent "Tuesday Night Music Club" hit album just one year later.

Even though this album ended up being rather short, I decided to only include a single song from her 1992 album, "All Kinds of People." However, another one of the songs from it, "Father's Son," shows up here in a live version. One problem with that album is the production, so the live version gets around that. It's telling to me that it seems to be the only song from that album that she's played in concert, and that she's never released the album or any of the songs from it. I'm guessing she realized that whole album was a misstep.

There's one other early song here, "Welcome to the Real Life," that weirdly seems to be an outtake from that 1992 album, yet is better than pretty much all the songs from the album. The rest of the songs date from her 1993 "Tuesday Night Music Club" era. Five songs are B-sides, and three of those are covers ("D'yer Mak'er," "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday," and "All by Myself.") One other song is unreleased and from a concert, a cover of "Happy" by the Rolling Stones.

"Volvo Cowgirl 99" is kind of an alternate version of "The Na-Na Song," but it's so different that it sounds like a completely new song to me.

Crow's unreleased 1992 album has been widely bootlegged. Trust me, you're way better off with this instead of that.

01 Welcome to the Real Life (Sheryl Crow)
02 All Kinds of People (Sheryl Crow)
03 Happy (Sheryl Crow)
04 Father Sun (Sheryl Crow)
05 California (Sheryl Crow)
06 Mercy (Sheryl Crow)
07 Volvo Cowgirl 99 [Alternate Version of The Na-Na Song] (Sheryl Crow)
08 D'yer Mak'er (Sheryl Crow)
09 I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday (Sheryl Crow)
10 Reach Around Jerk (Sheryl Crow)
11 Burning (Sheryl Crow)
12 All by Myself (Sheryl Crow)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15104260/SherylC_1992-1993_Hppy_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I used a publicity photo from 1993.