Pros: Sheryl is gorgeous, she's in top condition, the energy was high, and she looked like she was having a ball. The concert comes packed with a great setlist with numerous favorites.

Cons: Like many people have mentioned, both the filming and editing, for lack of a better word, sucks. The cameras zoom in, zoom out, blur out of focus on purpose just to re-focus (for effect, I guess). It's weird, because instead of focusing on Sheryl, the next shot inevitably zooms in on her guitarist's hand or her drummer's head. (I'm not kidding, they zoom in on hands, a LOT.) You also don't get more than 5 seconds in any one shot. Her bandmate's must be happy, because you see a lot the camera shares tons of love with her band--too much. I'm all for giving the rest of the band credit and screentime, but I don't pay for a concert DVD to see that much of the band.

I'm watching the DVD right now, and the shot's just moved from Sheryl's head, to a close up of the lead guitarist's hand, to a wide shot of the stage, to the discoball, to Sheryl's backside--all complete with zooms, blur effects, kaleidoscope effects, and swivels and swirls of camera moment--and all this took place in less than 30 seconds.

It's almost as if they desperately wanted a to give the DVD a "high energy" feel. Either that, or everybody in the editing room were hyper sorts who forgot to take their sedatives the day they put the DVD together. It didn't quite nauseate me, but it certainly got annoying in a quite a couple of spots when you just want to watch Sheryl for more than a few seconds at a time.

Silly me, I even read the reviews here and went ahead and bought the DVD, thinking the other reviewers exaggerated a bit about the schizophrenic editing. I don't know who okayed the job, but I would have told them to redo the whole thing within two minutes of watching it. They call it editing; I call it "slice, splice, and slap together."

Please, a little compassion for those who get motion sick or dizzy easily!


Good show sabotaged by awful filmmaking.   June 26, 2005
M. S Swanson (Elkhart, IN USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

Just wanted to jump into the mix and say that this show was butchered by incomprehensible editing. I put this on for the first time at a party and everybody was put-off by the ultra fast cutting and weird choices of shots and angles. They cut away from Sheryl when she's singing and playing so many times that it just makes you wonder what' up!? Maybe she's so humble she wants her band members to get equal time. I don't need to see a two second cut-away to the drummers foot while she's singing All I wanna Do. The music sounded great-but C'mon, C'mon. We want to see Sheryl Crow!


Highly Compressed Audio - Rapid Video - Otherwise Great   March 3, 2004
uthaman (Milford, MI United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Great performance. Sheryl does look great and is a joy to watch.

Main shortcoming is the highly compressed audio. The overall mix is lacking just a bit. Sheryl's voice is somewhat buried. When I crank this baby up to the levels I'm accustomed to with other finer recordings (Clapton's - One More Car, One More Rider, DMB - Live in Central Park) it just sounds thin and distorted. Not enough resolution there to accomodate. Similar but not nearly as extreme as the reprehensible Rush - Live in Rio.

The other annoyance is the rapid fire video production. It is more than a bit overdone.

Again, not a complete throw-away. Worth a keep just for Sheryl's energy and charisma. Not as good of a A/V production as other reviewers over-zealously conclude.


C'Mon and Rock with Sheryl!   January 18, 2004
K. Downey (Atmore, AL)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

This is my second Sheryl Crow DVD concert. Until now I thought her "Rockin' the Globe" was great, but "C'Mon America" beats that concert hands down. Sheryl is so "on" for this concert, the audience is pumped, and the production is flawless. There are two full hours of music here with 21 tracks featuring all of Sheryl's big hits plus a few new tunes. High definition cameras create incredible visuals. The only drawback is that there's no DTS audio, but the Dolby track still sounds awesome. If you're a Sheryl Crow fan, or if you just love a fantastic concert, you have GOT to pick up this one.


I'm sure they had good intentions....   February 19, 2004
G. Kosikowski (Woodburn, OR USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

....but the editor and director dropped the ball in this DVD.

WARNING: Mindless / senseless, pans, zooms, and rapid cuts throughout this DVD can cause motion sickness!!!!

Did these guys just get out of motion picture school??? It seems that they had a list of every trick you could do with a camera and got to check off every one.....

Editor Bullen and Director Atkins: get a copy of "Concert for George" - watch the full concert (not the Theatrical version)....absolutely beautiful!

Sheryl - you deserve better.

Otherwise, the music is perfect - clear, nice punch to it - great live mix.