Wildflower - New York

So I received Sheryl Crow's DVD last Tuesday. Being a big fan of hers, it goes without saying that I could hardly contain my excitement to watch her performance during the Wildflower Tour.

So when I came home from the office, watch her - I did. I actually watched with my son Matt - who was all eyes and ears to her performance. (I couldn't believe that Sheryl Crow had his full attention the entire time the DVD was playing! Matt is a very active kid and he always moves around even if his favorite flicks are turned on that's why I was surprised when he kept still the whole time Sheryl was singing on screen).

Anyway, I enjoyed the performance a lot. Can I just add-- maybe it's just my imagination but I can detect a slight awkwardness there -- not with the singing though but with her movements. But anyway, I just love her. I love her performance and I definitely love, love, love her song for God entitled Letter to God and her anti-war song, Where Has All The Love Gone.

I was still lost in thought thinking of these songs when the credits rolled on the screen and I was only brought back to the present time when Matt moved and requested to "watch Tita Sherie again, Mama."

I'm A Big Fan!

All I Wanna Do. If It Makes You Happy. A Change Would Do You Good.

Do these phrases sound familiar to you?

Now try these. Sweet Child o' Mine. My Favorite Mistake. The First Cut Is The Deepest.

All these ring a bell, right? Pray tell me what comes to your mind.

Got it. The name is Sheryl Crow. Singer. Songwriter. composer. Guitarist. Pianist. Grammy winner. Cancer survivor. Single mom.

I so love her. She is one of my favorite singers – then and now. I still remember how my friends and I sang her All I Wanna Do song back when we were in college. I remember the wanting – my wanting to learn to play the guitar while watching my guitarist friend “tickle” the guitar and playing her songs. Oh how I longed to play the guitar. (Pathetic, I know. But do you know that I’m the only who can’t play the guitar among my brothers and sisters? Such a loser in that area. I’m not bitter with that fact though.)

Ah. Nostalgia. Sweet nostalgia. Writing about it makes me feel real good - it brings back wonderful memories.

I still listen to Sheryl from my iPod. And croon her If It Makes You Happy often (yup, bathroom concerts). I know I’d still listen to her ten years from now.

And the good news is she’s back with the album Detours. Yes, after her album Wildflower which was released in the last quarter of 2005 and her fight against cancer, she’s back with an album! Oh yeah! I have not bought a copy yet but I heard it’s doing good in the Billboard Chart. It‘s now down to the 80s (89 actually) but it reached position 2 as its peak.

Interested? Best-est news is, you can check her perform tracks from her Detours album here. There’s even an interview courtesy of Soundcheck (thanks guys!) I saw it. I love it. And I’ll watch it again tonight.