Tuesday Night Music Club

Infobox Album | Name = Tuesday Night Music Club
Type = studio
Artist = Sheryl Crow


Released = August 3 1993
Recorded = 1993
Genre = Rock
Length = 49:42
Label = A&M
Producer = Bill Bottrell
Reviews = "
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kjfrxq9gldfe~T1 link]
Last album =
This album = "Tuesday Night Music Club"
(1993)
Next album = "Sheryl Crow"
(1996)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = orange


Lower caption = Alternate cover of "Tuesday Night Music Club"

"Tuesday Night Music Club" is the debut album from American singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in August 3 1993. The lead single "Run, Baby, Run" was not particularly successful. However, the album gained attention after the success of the third single, "All I Wanna Do," based on the Wyn Cooper's poem "Fun" and co-written by David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Sheryl Crow, and Kevin Gilbert. The single eventually reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, propelling the album to number three in the US Billboard 200 album charts, selling over 5.3 million units there as of January 2008 [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/ask_bb/index.jsp] [http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=47877] . On the UK Album Chart, "Tuesday Night Music Club" reached #8.

History

The title of the album comes from the name for the ad hoc group of musicians including Crow, the "Tuesday Music Club", who came together on Tuesdays to work on the album. [cite web
url = http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.01.96/gilbert-obit-9631.html
title = All Rocked Out
accessdate = 2007-12-16
author = Richard Sine
date = August 1, 1996
work = Metro Silicon Valley] Many of them share songwriting credits with Crow.

The group existed as a casual songwriting collective prior to its association with Crow, but rapidly developed into a vehicle for her debut album after her arrival (she was at the time dating Kevin Gilbert, who actually co-wrote most of the songs for the TNMC album along with Crow, Baerwald, Ricketts, Bottrell, Schwartz and MacLeod). Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album release and there were disputes about songwriting credits. Crow claimed to have written them in interviews later. Both Gilbert and Baerwald castigated Crow publicly in the fallout, although Baerwald would later soften his position. A similar tension would arise with TNMC member Bill Bottrell after her second album, over which he collaborated, at least in the early stages.

Bill Bottrell has recently stated that: "The truth is hard to describe, but it lies between what all the people were shouting. It was all very vague and very complicated. She wrote the majority of the album. The guys and I contributed writing and lyrics, including some personal things. However, the sound was the sound that I developed.” (New York Times, February 5, 2008)

"Tuesday Night Music Club" went on to sell some 7.6 million copies in the US and UK during the 1990s. The album also won Crow three Grammy Awards in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance.

Travis Tritt's 2002 album "Strong Enough" features a song titled "Strong Enough to be Your Man" and was written as a reply to Crow's original song. [Staff writer (2002). ( [http://www.musicoutfitter.com/store/696998666023/strongenough.html "Album Notes"] MusicOutfitter.com (accessed August 30, 2006)]

Track listing

#"Run, Baby, Run" (David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Crow) – 4:53
#"Leaving Las Vegas" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts) – 5:10
#"Strong Enough" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Brian MacLeod, Ricketts) – 3:10
#"Can't Cry Anymore" (Bottrell, Crow) – 3:41
#"Solidify" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Kevin Hunter, MacLeod, Ricketts) – 4:08
#"The Na-Na Song" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, MacLeod, Ricketts) – 3:12
#"No One Said It Would Be Easy" (Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 5:29
#"What I Can Do For You" (Baerwald, Crow) – 4:15
#"All I Wanna Do" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Wyn Cooper, Crow, Gilbert) – 4:32
#"We Do What We Can" (Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Schwartz) – 5:38
#"I Shall Believe" (Bottrell, Crow) – 5:34

Limited edition bonus disc

A limited edition of the album released in England in 1995 contained a second CD, "Sheryl Crow Live", containing tracks recorded live on June 6 1994 at the Shepherds Bush Empire by GLR/BBC.

#"Reach Around Jerk" (Crow, Bottrell, Schwartz) – 4:48
#"Can't Cry Anymore" (Bottrell, Crow) – 4:54
#"What Can I Do For You" (Baerwald, Crow) – 7:01
#"No-One Said It Would Be Easy" (Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 6:55
#"Leaving Las Vegas" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Ricketts) – 6:38
#"Volvo Cowgirl" (Crow, Baerwald, Gilbert, Bottrell, Macleod, Schwartz) – 2:30

Other limited edition bonus disc

Another limited edition of the album contained a different second CD, "Live in Singapore: [V] at the Hard Rock", containing tracks recorded live on May 1 1995.

#"Can't Cry Anymore" (Bottrell, Crow) – 4:24
#"Leaving Las Vegas" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, Ricketts) – 5:34
#"Run, Baby, Run" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow) – 5:58
#"The Na-Na Song" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, MacLeod, Ricketts) – 3:42
#"Strong Enough" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Crow, Gilbert, MacLeod, Ricketts) – 3:12
#"All I Wanna Do" (Baerwald, Bottrell, Cooper, Crow, Gilbert) – 5:19

Personnel

Musicians

*Sheryl Crow – guitar, piano, vocals
*David Baerwald – guitar
*Bill Bottrell – guitar, pedal steel
*Kevin Gilbert – keys, guitar, drums ("Run Baby Run"),
*David Ricketts – bass ("Leaving Las Vegas")
*Dan Schwartz – bass, guitar
*Brian MacLeod– drums

Production

*Bill Bottrell – producer
*Dan Schwartz – assistant producer
*Blair Lamb – engineer
*Bernie Grundman – mastering
*Richard Frankel – art direction
*Jean Krikorian – design
*Melodie McDaniel, Peggy Sirota – photography
*Sheryl Crow – liner notes

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Notes

External links

* [http://sherylcrow.com/ Sheryl Crow Official website]

succession box
before = "The Colour of My Love" by Celine Dion
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = June 11 - June 24 1995
after = "P•U•L•S•E" by Pink Floyd