Sheryl Crow will release what she’s been calling her final album, Threads, next month. Even though she’s choosing to approach her creation of music differently in the future, Sheryl says, “I would not recommend to any young artists to not make albums. Albums are important.”
The music industry is changing, and the way people consume music is changing, but Sheryl believes every young artist should experience the joy and the fulfillment of telling their story through the album making process, which she has had the opportunity to do for the better part of the last 25 years. But for her, at this stage in her career, she says, “Because I’ve been doing it so long, and I grew up loving the whole project scenario of where you create a beginning a middle and end, and you spend all this time, you know, sort of creating a story, it almost seems futile. So I’d rather do the immediate, which is if I write a great song and feel like putting it out, I can do that and not wait for a full album to be written, recorded, that whole thing.”
Threads, featuring Sheryl’s latest single, “Prove You Wrong,” with Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris, will be released on August 30th.
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“I would not recommend to any young artist to not make albums. Albums are important, even though I feel like now it’s all about streaming and playlists and cherry picking a song here and a song there. For me, because I’ve been doing it so long, and I grew up loving the whole project scenario, where you create a beginning a middle and end, and you spend all this time, you know, sort of creating a story, it almost seems futile. So I’d rather do the immediate, which is if I write a great song and feel like putting it out, I can do that and not wait for a full album to be written, recorded, that whole thing.”