Sheryl Crow’s breakout debut album, “Tuesday Night Music Club,” has been expanded for a Nov. 17 re-release, according to a press release. The new, deluxe edition will feature the original 1993 album, a second CD containing b-sides, rarities and outtakes and a bonus DVD featuring the album’s six original videos plus a rare alternate version of “All I Wanna Do” directed by Roman Coppola.

The DVD also will feature a newly-produced documentary comprised of on-the-road, backstage, soundcheck and live footage from Crow’s early ’90s tour in support of the set.

Four of the previously unreleased recordings on the bonus CD–”Coffee Shop,” “Killer Life,” “Essential Trip of Hereness” and “You Want More”–were recorded in 1995 and intended for Crow’s follow-up album. The cuts were mixed for this album by original “Tuesday Night Music Club” producer Bill Bottrell.

The bonus CD also includes a trio of UK single B-sides–”Reach Around Jerk,” an alternate version of “The Na-Na Song” titled “Volvo Cowgirl 99″ and a cover of Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”–as well as a cover of Led Zepplin’s “D’yer Mak’er” and the song “On The Outside,” which was released as part of an “X-Files” soundtrack album.

“Tuesday Night Music Club” has been certified seven times platinum and earned three Grammy Awards for Crow, including Best New Artist and Record of the Year for “All I Wanna Do.”

Source – LiveDaily.com

A fund run by a group 50 percent owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia has acquired the music publishing catalog of U.S. singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, behind hits “All I Wanna Do” and “Everyday is a Winding Road.”

The deal by Ireland-based First State Media Group Ltd. (FSMG) is the latest foray by financial and media firms into music publishing rights, seen as a reliable source of revenue generated when songs are played on the radio, in films and elsewhere.

Dutch pension fund ABP was estimated to have paid around $200 million for the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalog of songs in April while private equity firm Pegasus Capital paid an estimated $55 million for Spirit Music Group, a song publisher with rights to artists from Frank Sinatra to Madonna.

The recorded music business, by contrast, has shrunk steadily in recent years due to internet piracy and the ascendancy of digital music.

Through its deal with Crow, the terms of which were not disclosed, FSMG adds 153 songs released by the singer between 1993 and 2008 and also secures publishing rights to her next two albums.

FSMG said it had made music copyright investments of over $150 million since it was launched in October last year.

Source – Yahoo!

Sheryl’s Christmas album will be available in HALLMARK stores on September 30th.

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 ”Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria helped singer Sheryl Crow avoid the paparazzi at the opening of her new Hollywood restaurant Beso by offering the reporters gathered outside free tacos.

Crow wanted to attend the event only if she would be left alone by the press. So Longoria distracted the photographers as Crow sneaked in from the back.

Longoria said: “This was an evil plan. A friend of mine wanted to go to the restaurant (opening). She said, ‘I want to go, I just don’t feel the paparazzi tonight.’

“I said, ‘You go in the back and I’ll go out front and distract them.’ I was like, ‘What do I do?… I’ll take them tacos.’ Sure enough, I go out the front door and she went right in the back and nobody saw her. Then we did the same thing on the way out. I brought out dessert instead.”

Not much scares Sheryl Crow these days.

Not breast cancer, which she’s battled into remission. Not public heartbreak, which is less raw now. Not writing bolder lyrics, which means less radio play.

“The last three years were a real awakening for me,” Crow says, during a stop to promote her first album since 2005. “I’ve felt a fearlessness I’ve never felt before.”

That bravery is the product of a one-two punch — the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness only days after the collapse of her engagement to bike champion Lance Armstrong.

Last spring, she poured out her feelings in a studio built at her new Tennessee farm. With newly adopted baby Wyatt keeping her company, she knocked out 24 songs in 40 days. The result is “Detours,” a CD that veers from the intensely personal to the unabashedly political, from cancer and love lost to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war.

“A lot of defining moments brought me to a place where by the time I sat down to write, I felt not only inspired but urgent about what I was writing about,” she says.

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To celebrate the release of her new album Detours, Sheryl Crow will be taking over SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s The Spectrum (Channel 18) for five straight days! Listeners will hear a track-by-track preview and in-depth discussion of her new CD, plus exclusive performances of songs from Detours and some of her classic hits from the SIRIUS studios. Sheryl Crow’s Spectrum kicks off Monday, February 4th at 7 A.M. ET – only on SIRIUS Channel 18.

And if you don’t have SIRIUS, you can still listen by signing up for our FREE 3-DAY ONLINE TRIAL. Just go to: www.sirius.com/3forfree

Sheryl Crow has left Santa Monica Boulevard with her new CD, “Detours.” The singer—and new mom—spoke to Jac Chebatoris:

Congratulations on the new baby, new record — and surviving cancer. How are you doing?
I am fantastic. In fact, can you hang on a second? I’m going to move because my son’s in here and he wants to play. [Baby noise] Sorry about that.

How old is he?
Nine months, and he’s trying so hard to walk. He’s crawling at, like, 90 miles an hour, pulling up on everything. The madness begins!

How is writing with him around?
It’s interesting that you can go out and talk about the environment with college kids, but until you have a kid and you’re really emotionally invested in what kind of planet you’re leaving for your kid, you don’t realize the sense of urgency that you’ll feel.

Do you feel a responsibility as an artist to get these issues out there in your songs?
I don’t feel a responsibility to write about it—I feel an urgency. It’s a really compelling time, and it would feel really wasteful to not talk about the things that are right in front of me. The fact that we’re not all out in the streets and trying to incite change is indicative of just how numbed out we are.

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Sheryl Crow will release her new album, Detours, on February 5, and while making the record, she surprised a former collaborator with a phone call. Crow famously had a falling out with the musicians who recorded her breakthrough record, Tuesday Night Music Club, after the success of her debut. Producer Bill Bottrell called Crow “hopeless” and “obnoxious” in a Rolling Stone interview in the mid-’90s.

However, Crow buried the hatchet with Bottrell last summer while working on Detours. “He said, ‘I’ve been waiting years for this call,’” Crow told Rolling Stone. “It was a sweet homecoming for the both of us.” Crow and Bottrell recorded 24 songs in about a month and a half in Crow’s Nashville home. She says the adoption of her son Wyatt inspired her songwriting this time. “I couldn’t write fast enough - having this tiny, innocent spirit made me fearless,” she says. “I felt a sense of urgency to write about what’s really happening.”

Detours includes the political “God Bless This Mess,” the lead single “Love Is Free” and “Diamond Ring,” of which Crow jokingly notes, “All I can say is that I’ve been ­engaged three times. So I have a thing about diamonds.”

Crow currently has three concerts on tap: two appearances in New York City on February 6 and 7 and one in Los Angeles on March 11.