Sheryl Crow has a recording studio on her property in Nashville where she not only works on her own music, but often invites friends to use the studio. One person who took Sheryl up on her offer was Kacey Musgraves. Sheryl says, “Daniel Tashian was working with Kacey, and he said she’d like to try out some things but doesn’t want to have it under the glaze of the record label. And I said my studio is open to people I love.”
One thing Sheryl loves about having other artists in her studio is the thought that they might leave behind a little bit of their creative magic and energy. “Chris Stapleton had come in and recorded there numerous times,” says Sheryl, “as well as Keith Urban without anybody knowing. And I have all my guitars hanging on the walls and they’re just in there like, ‘Hmmm … a little Keith Urban, I’m gonna just put in my guitar, a little bit of Vince Gill in my guitar. I mean it’s all being caught in there, in the DNA.”
Sheryl recalled one funny story about Kacey Musgraves recording her Grammy winning album, Golden Hour, in her studio. She said, “My boys came down one night – y’all can’t print this either. Well, actually, she’d probably think it’s funny. I brought my boys down and we were hearing some of our staff and then we went back up to the house and my little seven-year-old at the time was like, ‘Mom there’s a skunk down there. How did they work with that smell? There’s … I think there’s a skunk that died down there.’ And I was like, ‘That’s not really a skunk.’”
Sheryl recorded much of her new album, Threads, in her own studio. The album features Sheryl collaborating with some of music’s biggest stars like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Vince Gill, and Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris who appear on her latest song, “{Prove You Wrong.” Threads will be available on August 30th.
Sheryl Crow – Kacey in her studio :52
“Daniel Tashian was working with Kacey, and he said she’d like to try out some things but doesn’t want to have it under the glaze of the record label. And I said my studio is open to people I love. Chris Stapleton had come in and recorded there numerous times, as well as Keith Urban without anybody knowing. And I have all my guitars hanging on the walls and they’re just in there like, ‘Hmmm … a little Keith Urban, I’m gonna just put in my guitar, a little bit of Vince Gill in my guitar. I mean it’s all being caught in there, in the DNA. And so she came in and she really loved it and so she made a record there. And my boys came down one night – y’all can’t print this either. Well, actually, she’d probably think it’s funny. I brought my boys down and we were hearing some of our staff and then we went back up to the house and my little seven-year-old at the time was like, ‘Mom there’s a skunk down there. How did they work with that smell? There’s … I think there’s a skunk that died down there.’ And I was like, ‘That’s not really a skunk.’”