Tuesday Night Music Club
(Album, '93)
Polydor, POCM-1054 (JP)
A&M, 540 126-29 (UK)
A&M, 31454 0126 2 (US)


Tracks
Cover of TNMC (JP)
Above is the Japanese and US artwork. Click the picture and you will see the UK version.

1. Run, Baby, Run
2. Leaving Las Vegas
3. Strong Enough
4. Can't Cry Anymore
5. Solidify
6. The Na-na Song
7. No One Said It Would Be Easy
8. What I Can Do for You
9. All I Wanna Do
10. We Do What We Can
11. I Shall Believe

Credits
(Songwriter)
1. Bill Bottrell, David Baewald & Sheryl Crow
2. S.Crow/B.Bottrell/D.Baewald/K.Gilbert/D.Ricketts
3, 6. S.Crow/B.Bottrell/D.Baewald/K.Gilbert/D.Ricketts/B.Macleod
4, 12. Sheryl Crow and Bill Bottrell
5. S.Crow/K.Hunter/B.Bottrell/D.Baewald/K.Gilbert/D.Ricketts/B.Macleod
7, 10. S.Crow/B.Bottrell/K.Gilbert/D.Schwartz
8. David Baewald and Sheryl Crow
9. W.Cooper/S.Crow/B.Bottrell/D.Baewald/K.Gilbert

(Producer)
Bill Bottrell

Notes
Tuesday Night Music Club is Sheryl's very first album released in May in the US and November in Japan. The album title refers to the session Sheryl and other artists did every Tuesday night at the producer Bill Bottrel's studio, and it well represent the character of this album.

It was not a smash, but it gradually caught the attention with the second single Leaving Las Vegas. It exploded with then-irresistable All I Wanna Do after Sheryl performed at Woodstock '94. This album sold more than six million in the US alone and brought Sheryl the best new artist(as well as two more) at '95 Grammy Award.

This displays Sheryl's various musical influences like jazz, country and folk in relatively simple form compared to the later two albums. Many people will relate to the Rolling Stones in Can't Cry Anymore and The NA-NA Song is a kind of rap music. No One Said It Would Be Easy is clearly jazz-influenced. Yet you will notice her typical songwriting style as the storyteller here.

It sounds different when the songs are done live, primarily because of the mixing of the vocal track. It does not sound as raw as in Sheryl Crow and The Globe Sessions, which was mixed by excellent Tchad Blake.

Still songs like Strong Enough and I Shall Believe can be called essential Sheryl songs and now-underrated All I Wanna Do still sounds good to me.

I assume it would be greater if it were re-recorded, produced by Sheryl Crow herself now.

　

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