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Sheryl Crow - Live from Central Park Audio CD

A fair review of the Sheryl Crow "Live from Central Park" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Sheryl Crow reviews here, or go back to the Sheryl Crow tabs.

Sheryl Crow Band: Sheryl Crow
Title: Live from Central Park
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-12-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Everyday Is a Winding Road 2: My Favorite Mistake 3: Leaving Las Vegas 4: Strong Enough 5: It Don't Hurt 6: Change Would Do You Good 7: Gold Dust Woman 8: If It Makes You Happy 9: All I Wanna Do 10: Happy 11: Difficult Kind 12: White Room 13: There Goes the Neighborhood 14: Tombstone Blues

One of her best.
I wore out the first one and had to buy a second. I love this CD. .


Note to record company: please release the DVD!
Crackling live energy and tremendous singing and playing - note to record company: please release the DVD!.


A major letdown
Read my gripes below:

Sheryl Crow was not naive when she planned this concert so should have put out a live album performed only by her and her band and not this mess overloading with guest stars. I had some big expectations for this album but after several listenings, my jaw dropped to the ground and not precisely out of astonishment. One gets the impression that she didn't feel confident enough to play after huge audiences without outside people's help. To me it's pretty dumb.

What's up with her voice? She must be hoarse or who knows what happened, but you can't hear her without feeling like cringing - same as when the Dixie Chicks take over on vocals for Strong Enough. That voice can grate on anyone's nerves.

I'm sure most of Sheryl's fans would have liked far more an honest live album taped in a small club and with songs by her alone, not so many covers. Sheryl Crow's extra cd Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire comes to mind. Even though it only features six tracks, it's far more enjoyable than the album being reviewed in this page.

In a nutshell, skip this one unless you are the diehard fan.

2/5.


One of the Greatest Live Albums Out There
Sheryl Crow demonstrates her influence and talent by putting on an all star show with some of the biggest names in music history. This album is by far on the greatest recent live recordings. Sheryl shines on her own, singing some of her great hits, but it's the duets that really make the album. My least favorite has to be the Dixie Chicks just because I can't appreciate the country flare they bring to "Strong Enough" but it's still a great version. Chrissie Hynde, one of the album's highlights, brings intense attitude to "If It Makes You Happy", still one of my favorite Sheryl songs. Stevie Nicks remains Stevie Nicks, giving more than enough emotion and flare to her own "Gold Dust Woman. " Sarah McLachlan's usually soft voice comes out strong on "The Difficult Kind" and compliments Sheryl's quite nicely. My favorite rendition has to be Eric Clapton and Sheryl together on Cream's "White Room", the rock-out moment on the album. The show is complete when all the guests return to belt out Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues" and close the show with a definite BANG.


with friends like these....
Half the album is standard issue and straight ahead stage sweat with the morning beer-buzz afficiando going it alone without a little help from her friends (All I Wanna Do, Everyday Is a Winding Road, A Change Would Do You Good, Leaving Las Vegas). Clipped, petite and looking more like a leather bar Anne Murray, Crow drags out the hits and the `friends' for this all-star live bash. With only slight variations on these overplayed originals (a sychopantic crowd and some tinkering with the rhythms) Crow's solo chores rarely rate more than a grudging ho-hum. The rest of the album is a parade of snap-on tools (Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks, Eric Clapton, Sarah McLachlan, Chrissie Hynde) who easily steal the spotlight from their downhome hash-slinging waitress/host. Reduced to the role of supporting guitarist, Crow butters the toast from the sidelines as femme contemporaries like Nicks (who unravels admirably on Gold Dust Woman), Hynde and McLachlan flounder about the mike in a haphazard hit (Hynde's If It Makes You Happy)-and-miss (McLachlan's The Difficult Kind) headbutt at Crow's hits. But it isn't until Clapton's suspendered, cigar-chomping husk is rolled out to update Cream's White Room that the sour stench of monstrous micalculation reaches it's devastating climax. Fresh from watering the daisies and still in his jammies, Clapton's return to the electric psychedelics of his Paleolithic past is a fumbling bumbling fiasco unleashed with the grace and finesse of a diarrhetic Brontosaurus. It's horrifying to think that this is what Cream would have sounded like if they hadn't broken up. Thank God for egos. It's almost a relief to hear Richards mindlessly croak his way through the old Stones Exile-era toss-off Happy, as if a cadaverous ex-junkie with the durability of a cockroach and nine lives would be anything but. Besides, Richards provides wonderful comic relief and criticizing his artistic capacity is as futile as pointing out the flaws in the bandages on an Egyptian mummy. The wrapper finds the entire gang, from Spanky Nicks to Buckwheat Clapton, joining hands for a bizarre entreaty with a kindergarten rendition of Dylan's Tombstone Blues - a fitting finale if there ever was one.


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