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Editorial Review:
Since her 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, Sheryl Crow has been churning out unassailably appealing CDs in an unassailably appealing voice. Which means, according to the rules of the pop music cosmos, by album six it's about time for a misstep. Natural law, fortunately, will have to keep checking its watch. Wildflower moves Sheryl Crow one step closer to Hall of Fame status as she shunts the established rock star's impulse to get all experimental, but instead sprawls, rambling rose-like, across the substance-spiked pop landscape she helped pioneer. Three ingredients, glistening vocals, flawless production, and catchy songs rub up against one another in all the right places. These ingredients will cause you to hold your breath on the beautiful piano ballad "Always on Your Side." They pop up again on the George Harrison-esque "Where Has All the Love Gone" reminding you that Crow can reflect and reveal as convincingly as she can rock. If there is a ripple that runs through Wildflower, it's a pensive one. On the spacy "Chances Are," she sings of being "...lost inside a daydream." The measure of her talent, ripe and reappraisal-resistant, is her ability to consistently bring us inside the bubble with her. --Tammy La Gorce
9-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow returns with her 5th studio album. With stripped down production and lush orchestration, this album cements her status as America's premiere female rock star.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
It all comes down to creating time... For the most part 'Wildflower' is an album of quiet contemplation, emotive lyrics and haunting melodies. But whatever the album, as a musician Sheryl Crow proves time and again how effortlessly she can produce an original and evocative sound with each new release, creating with apparent ease a collection of new & distinctive songs with each and every record. The first track on the album is classic Crow- `I Know Why' (7/10) is a combination of catchy country & pleasing pop resulting in a... more info
Great classic Crow I have never failed to love Sheryl Crow's choice of music and this is no different. Unlike other reviewers, I do not see a big departure from Sheryl's style though one of my favourites has been "Home" and this album is the more laid back, late night listening that I love. Track after track produces an array of hits. I'm surprised that every one of these tracks haven't been single hits.
Unexpected Gem Wildflower, Crow's fifth studio album was released to a lukewarm response amongst fans and some critics, and when comparing it to earlier albums, it isn't too difficult to understand why. 'Wildflower' is completely different to any of Crow's earlier albums, lacking the pop-rock punch of 'Everyday Is A Winding Road', or 'All I Wanna Do', it consists largely of introspective torch ballads and silky midtempo guitar numbers. In fact, this has more in common with Sarah McLachlan's 'Afterglow' than any of... more info
All much the same Sheryl Crow is not one of my favourite artists. However, hearing "I Know Why" on the radio I was beguiled by the liquid sound and easy-going folk-hippy soft-rock / pop style. Unfortunately, it never really varies throughout the whole album and quickly becomes depressingly mournful. Never-the-less it is extremely well executed. The artist has a beautiful voice, but I'd like an occasional break from the rather funereal ambiance. It becomes just one long dirge, hard in some ways to tell the difference from the... more info
