Sheryl Crow with Kid Rock, Stevie Nicks & Keith Richards - The Shine Club, New York City, 4-30-2001

This is a very interesting Sheryl Crow concert. In fact, it's the most interesting one I've ever come across. Instead of her usual shot performing her hits to a large crowd, she played a secret, unannounced show at a very small club. That freed her up to play whatever she wanted, just for fun. So although she did do a few of her hits, she mostly played cover songs she enjoyed.

For this show, she's played a lot of songs she very rarely, or maybe never, played otherwise. This contains covers of songs by: the James Gang, Badfinger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers Band, Dobie Gray, the Everly Brothers,  Buddy Holly, Fats Dominos, Ram Jam/ Lead Belly, Foghat, Tom Petty, the Sugarhill Gang, and Queen! Definitely not your typical Sheryl Crow concert.

That would make the show plenty interesting already. But what's even more intriguing is that she invited three of her famous musician friends to join her: Kid Rock, Stevie Nicks, and Keith Richards. She's done various duets and musical projects with the first two, and she's toured with the Rolling Stones more than once, often performing with them on stage. Each of her guests also let their hair down and played songs they usually didn't play. For instance, Kid Rock strayed far from his reputation as a rap-rock star by playing a solo acoustic version of the Allman Brothers Band song "Come and Go Blues."

As far as the sound quality goes, this is an audience bootleg, which means it's less than ideal. But it's one of the better audience bootlegs. Normally, I steer clear of those, but this sounds perfectly fine to me.

I've made a lot of edits to tighten things up. Because the show was spontaneous and free-form, there was extended silence between songs, while I presume the band was figuring out what to play next. During these stretches, not much could be heard except fans shouting out their song suggestions. I've cut most of that out, but I've kept the between song banter of those on stage. Also, Kid Rock made some major flubs trying to get "Come and Go Blues" started, and I've edited those out.

In short, even though the sound quality isn't the greatest, if you want to download just one concert of Sheryl Crow playing with a band, I recommend this one.

01 talk (Sheryl Crow)
02 Walk Away (Sheryl Crow)
03 My Favorite Mistake (Sheryl Crow)
04 No Matter What (Sheryl Crow)
05 talk (Sheryl Crow)
06 If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow)
07 It Don't Hurt (Sheryl Crow)
08 Don't Tell Me - Sweet Home Alabama (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
09 talk (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
10 Come and Go Blues (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
11 talk (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
12 Drift Away (Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
13 talk (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
14 Love Hurts (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
15 Not Fade Away (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
16 Ain't that a Shame (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
17 Black Betty (Sheryl Crow)
18 Slow Ride (Sheryl Crow)
19 Do Ya (Sheryl Crow)
20 talk (Sheryl Crow)
21 Too Far from Texas (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
22 talk (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
23 It's Only Love (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
24 Leather and Lace (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
25 talk (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
26 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
27 The Difficult Kind (Sheryl Crow with Stevie Nicks)
28 talk (Sheryl Crow)
29 There Goes the Neighborhood - Rapper's Delight (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
30 Tie Your Mother Down (Sheryl Crow with Kid Rock)

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For some reason, Crow played three secret concerts at the Shine Club in 2001: this one in April, plus two in May. She had most of the same special guests each time. I found a photo of Crow with Kid Rock and Stevie Nicks together at one of the May concerts, and decided to use that for the cover art. But then, later, I discovered there were photos from this very concert in April. I found one I really like of Crow with Keith Richards. You can see the delight on her face that she's getting to play with one of her musical heroes. So I've chosen that as the cover art photo. But I like the other one, so I've included it here as well.