Walk with Sheryl Crow reveals singer’s other side
ByJaySpiegelman
Staff Reporter
I’ll bet that if I had bought a lot
tery ticket last Monday, I would have
won.
It was my very first time seeing
Sheryl Crow perform live, and 1 was
eagerly anticipating her performance.
I was standing outside the Orpheum
Theater’s backstage entrance about 3
p.m., freezing but hoping to just catch
a glimpse of or get an autograph from
Crow. Then this woman who was just
over 5 feet tall came along, walking a
dog.
I knelt down to pet the dog and
when I looked up to see whose dog it
was, there was Sheryl Crow. She was
accompanied by her bodyguard, and
they both hurried in to the Orpheum
because of the cold.
After the initial shock faded—and
I stopped kicking myself for missing
my big chance—I resumed my posi
tion by the backstage door, hoping that
she would come out again.
I could hear Crow and her band
performing during their sound check
for almost two hours. About 10 min
utes later, the doors swung open and
the same golden puppy emerged,
leashed again to Sheryl Crow. She was
wearing blue sweat pants, a gray sweat
shirt and sunglasses. She looked noth
ing like the Sheryl Crow that had
graced televisions and magazines for
the past two years — she looked like
a regular human being.
She was taking her dog (and her
bodyguard) for a walk, and I asked if
I could show them around the city. She
agreed, and we were on our way.
We walked through the Old Mar
ket, and I pointed out all the interest
ing things there—and no one seemed
to recognize her.
After a short walk, we headed back
to the Orpheum and said our
goodbyes. She happily signed my CD,
and I was left to revel in my walk with
Crow.
It wasn’t until that night that I re
alized why no one in the Old Market
had recognized her. On our walk, she
was Miss Crow, a sweet young woman
who could be mistaken for any other
person in Omaha, but on stage, she
was Sheryl Crow, a sensual ball of
energy that held a sell-out crowd in
the palm of her hand—and she knew
it.
The last thing she said to me be
fore going back into the Orpheum that
afternoon was “Why haven’t I been
here before?” I have a feeling that this
is not the last Omaha has seen of
Sheryl Crow.
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opened with “If It Makes You
Happy,” the first single off her self
titled album.
Crow’s powerful, yet soothing
voice and gentle mannerisms cre
ated an informal climate for the
duration of the show. Displaying
not only the range of her voice,
Crow also impressed the audience
by playing the guitar, keyboard,
accordion, harmonica and casta
nets.
Her frothy banter with the
crowd and with her own band kept
everyone in the best of moods, even
while covering some of her own
personal issues. She stopped after
a soulful rendition of “Maybe An
gels, to discuss ner position on
censorship and her news-making
conflict with Wal-Mart. Even
Dustin Hoffman would have been
proud when Crow denounced the
mega-store’s actions by simply say
ing “Wal-Mart sucks.”
Her set ranged from folk to rock
to gospel, but was always Crow. '
Winding down the show with the
moving song “I Shall Believe,” she
and her band took a bow and left,
only to return for a three-song en
core.
Crow’s performance beat a
Tuesday morning hangover hands
down. The light-hearted atmo
sphere, dabbed with moments of
sobriety, proved that all she wanted ^
to do was have some fun.
Music, schmooze flow freely at South by Southwest
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But the hype worked in Lullaby’s
favor — they were the only SXSW
band to have its photo run in this
Monday’s edition of the New York
Times.
Blue Moon Ghetto didn’t do too
badly either, playing at the Ritz Sat
urday to a receptive crowd.
One of the undisputed highlights
of SXSW was the Jayhawks perfor
mance Saturday night at Stubbs.
Another superb Minneapolis band
that put on an amazing show Satur
day night was roots-rockers the
Honeydogs, who recently signed with
Mercury Records.
Other bands that put on good
shows at SXSW include Columbia,
Mo.’s Ditch Witch, Kelly Willis,
Victoria Williams, the Gourds, Giant
Sand, Joe Henry and the Waco Broth
ers, who performed a surprise set at a
backyard barbecue Friday afternoon
with Austin band the Texas Meat Pur
veyors.
Other exceptional performances
were turned in by Slobberbone,
Whiskeytown, Blue Mountain, The
Violets (watch out for this band—the
lead singer has the voice of Melissa
Etheridge and the stage presence of
an alt-country Gwen Stefani) and
Minneapolis singer Marlee MacLeod.
Some other bands of note that per
formed at SXSW include Old 97s,
Cake, Soul-Coughing, Brave Combo,
Matthew Sweet, Indigenous, the Back
sliders, the Skeletones, Yo La Tengo,
Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad \foo
doo Daddy.
Austin native Alejandro Escovedo
and his rock-orchestral ensemble pro
vided the perfect close to the week,
playing a much different set than the
one he performed when he opened for
Son Volt in Omaha a few months ago.
The SXSW Music Conference is a
week-long circus of schmoozing and
boozing. It’s young bands playing
their hearts out in hopes of that golden
record contract. It’s established per
formers standing in line with their
fans to see their own musical heroes.
It’s blatant material excess and
self-promotion to the highest degree.
But once you look past all the hype
and glitz, there’s still the music. And
that’s what it’s really all about.
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