YEAR
2023
INDUCTED BY
Laura Dern
CATEGORY
Performers
Through her powerhouse solo performances, collaborations with industry icons, and early session musician work, Crow’s influence reverberates through classic 1990s rock, pop, country, folk, blues, and the work of countless singer-songwriters.
Sheryl Crow
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Holly Gleason
he was born November 1963, the day Aldous Huxley died . . . ” In August 1993, that oh-so-smart lyric – delivered conversationally, over
a spare, rolling piano and three searing electric guitar chords – kicked off Sheryl Crow’s just-released Tuesday Night Music Club. Lightly gospel, attenuated, and striding, the album’s first single, “Run, Baby, Run,” entwined story, musicianship, and a dusky voice that could question and witness at the same time. Intelligent, genre-curious, and featuring some of Los Angeles’ best session players, Crow’s engaging debut album exemplified what Album Rock Radio of the seventies and eighties had wrought.
