Sheryl Crow | C'MON C'MON | CD

Personnel includes: Sheryl Crow (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, piano, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, bass, maracas, tambourine, sound effects); Benmont Tench (vocals, piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Lenny Kravitz, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, Emmylou Harris, Gwyneth Paltrow, Liz Phair (vocals); Jeff Trout (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, programming, loops); John Shanks (electric guitar. bass, sampling, loops); Wendy Melvoin (electric guitar);
Joel Derouin (violin); Matt Funes (viola); Suzie Katayama (cello); Brad Jones (bass); Steve Jordan (drums, maracas, tambourine); Lenny Castro (congas, shaker, percussion).
Producers include: Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trout, John Shanks.
Engineers include: Trina Shomaker, Eric Tew, Dean Basskerville.
"Steve McQueen" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
C'MON C'MON was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical)."Soak Up The Sun" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "It's So Easy" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.
Personnel: Sheryl Crow (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, accordion, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards); Don Henley, Emmylou Harris, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lenny Kravitz, Liz Phair, Natalie Maines, Stevie Nicks (vocals); Peter Stroud (guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, Wurlitzer organ, background vocals); Doyle Bramhall II (guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Craig Ross (guitar, electric guitar); Jeff Trott (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, drum programming); Tim Smith (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Douglas Grean (electric guitar, keyboards); John Shanks (electric guitar, percussion programming, sampler); Wendy Melvoin (electric guitar); Matthew Pierce , Michele Richards, Marti Sweet, Joan Wasser, Joe Deninzon, Joel Derouin, Lorenza Ponce, Antoine Silverman, Soozie Tyrell, Joyce Hammann, Jill Jaffe, Paul Peabody, Berj Garabedian, Hiroko Taguchi, Charlie Bisharat (violin); Ron Lawrence , Matthew Funes , Debra Shufelt, Evan Wilson (viola); Rudy Stein, Daniel Smith, Garo Yellin, Jane Scarpantoni, Julia Kent, Matthew Brubeck, Suzie Katayama, Michelle Kinney (cello); Benmont Tench (piano, organ); Jeremy Stacey (toy piano, string synthesizer, drums, percussion); Keith Ciancia (organ, keyboards); Davey Faragher (upright bass); Shawn Pelton (drums, bells, loops); Jeff Anthony (drums, drum programming); Steve Jordan (drums); Lenny Castro (congas, shaker, percussion); Keith Schreiner (drum programming).
Audio Mixers: Jack Joseph Puig; Joe Zook; Andy Wallace; Steve Sisco.
Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Black Apple Studios, Portland, Jamaica; Clinton Recording, NY; Emerald Studios, Nashville, TN; Funny Bunny Studios, London, England; Henson Studios, Los Angeles, CA; OceanWay, Nashville, TN; Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA; The Living Room, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: Sheryl Nields.
So you think you know Sheryl Crow, eh? Well, the closest thing to what one might consider a "trademark" Crow tune on C'MON, C'MON is probably "Soak up the Sunshine," whose ironic good-timey feel and slide guitar recall TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB. "You're An Original" is a ' 70s-style bluesy hard-rocker whose stylistic bent is further underlined by the guest vocal appearance of Lenny Kravitz. The low-key "Safe and Sound" combines Beatlesque chord progressions with contemporary R&B loops for an interesting meld of sounds. The plangent guitars of the title track are the most obvious example of Crow's debt to early-'70s rock, with passages that seem to have EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY stamped all over them. The cheesecake inner-booklet photos and incongruous presence of Gwyneth Paltrow on "It's Only Love" may suggest that Crow has been spending too much time with her press agent, but her obvious commitment to solid songcraft is the reigning element on C'MON, C'MON.

• Format: CD
• Genre: Rock
• Released: 04/16/2002
• Released: 4/16/2002