★★★★★
Resident in Nashville since 2008, it's taken Crow five years to bite the bullet and make an entire album rooted in the music for which the city is famed. Previous releases have had their country elements, but Feels Like Home (a telling title) puts the rhinestones front and centre.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
Meaning, no surprise at all . The accompanying "country debut" declaration here really just acknowledges how far Sheryl Crow has wandered since the salty All I Wanna Do and Leaving Las Vegas on Tuesday Night Music Club 20 years ago. Here, punchy songs like Shotgun and Nobody's Business riff like her hero Keith Richards paying homage to Tennessee...
- www.mojo4music.com
2014-01-28
★★★★★
Well, it happened. Sheryl Crow finally (and fully) embraced the nu-country direction that she was nose-diving towards since 2005's Wallflower. It's a somewhat brave choice, but one that's befitting her seemingly natural progression as an artist. You could have hoped for a more edgy approach to a characteristically uninteresting style, but Sheryl abandoned edgy since she started singing about soaking up the sun and all that bullshit...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Sheryl Crow is nothing if not versatile: A former Michael Jackson backup singer who mixes pop, country, R&B and classic rock, she's built a career as an outspoken singer-songwriter and a Grammy-friendly go-to collaborator. Her eighth LP digs deeper into country tradition than she's ever gone before. The results are uneven, but never feel forced or faked. The ultimate stylistic diplomat, Crow makes every twang her own...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-09-10
★★★★★
SHERYL CROW"Feels Like Home"Producers: Sheryl Crow, Justin NiebankWarner BrothersRelease Date: Sept. 10
After over two decades of making records, Sheryl Crow enters into a new phase of her recording career with the Warner release of "Feels Like Home." Her decision to release an all-country project might surprise some, but a closer look at her music suggests that the genre has always been close to her heart...
- www.billboard.com
2013-09-10
★★★★★
While Sheryl Crow has scored minor hits on the Country Music radio charts throughout the years, she's never officially released her own single to radio prior to "Easy" and that song is currently Top 20 and rising with sales brisk as well. Fans of earlier Sheryl Crow will find songs like "Shotgun" and "Drinking" not out of bound with what they've come to know from the star and that could be said about "Easy" too...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-09-07
★★★★★
There's never been any question about Sheryl Crow's abilities as a singer/songwriter. But what's often overlooked is her savvy knowledge of who her audience is. Her early work was catchy enough to top the pop charts, but still had enough edge and sexiness to be a guilty pleasure for alt-country snobs -- it's hard to argue against the near-perfect execution of "If It Makes You Happy...
- exclaim.ca
2013-09-07
★★★★★
The cynical response that comes to the fore when an established pop/rock artist like Sheryl Crow makes a country album is that it's a ploy intended to prop up a flagging career. When the hits get fewer and farther between, you just head to Nashville, ladle on the strings and pedal steel, and you've got yourself a brand new audience ready to lap it all up, as if it were that easy...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-05
★★★★★
With 100 Miles from Memphis, Sheryl Crow takes us back to the glory days of 1960s and 1970s American soul and R&B. The album's name is a reference to her hometown, Kennett, Missouri, which sits 100 miles from the Tennessee Blues capital. For Crow, the region "is part of who I am, and it's the biggest inspiration for what I do." On her seventh album, the American songstress returns to her artistic roots, and reveals more of herself in the process...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25