Sheryl Crow at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.Photo:Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Sheryl Crowdoesn’t kiss and tell — especially not in the lyrics of her songs.
Crow, 61, prefers to keep her cards close to her chest when it comes to the romances that inspired some of her biggest hits, including “My Favorite Mistake.”
“It’s still so personal to me that I don’t know that anybody knows who it’s really about. I guess it’s my ‘You’re So Vain’ moment—I Carly [Simon]-ed it,” says Crow. “People thought it was [about Clapton] because I had been dating him for a little bit; I love Eric, and I admire him, but the song was older than that.”
Crow says that during the writing process forThe Globe Sessions, she’d been engaged to an unidentified ex and the relationship had recently ended. She also found herself “uprooted” from Los Angeles and moving to New York City.
“[I] was really, really raw from a relationship I had had that was just simply a very bad idea,” she says. “A lot of that record was weeding through the upheaval, digging through the subterfuge.”
Years down the line, Crow and Clapton, 78, remain friends; she was on the bill for his Crossroads Guitar Festival in Los Angeles in September, and he featured on her 2019 albumThreads. The two have even performed “My Favorite Mistake” together.
Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow.Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect
Though Crow — who will beinducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fameon Friday in a ceremony in New York — said thatThreadswould be her last record, she’s changed her tune, and has announced a new album, calledEvolution, will be out on March 29, 2024.
“I said I was never putting out another album, but there are several songs on that that I feel like are, to me, the best songs I’ve ever written,” she says. “I’m excited! You can never be too old to be excited. You can watch lines grow on your face and you can watch some of your abs start to really disappear, but you’re never too old to get excited.”
For more on Sheryl Crow, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com
