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Apart from the most popular song on the album "My Favorite Mistake," which has received more than ample airtime over the years, this album is populated with some of Sheryl Crow's best material to date. Whether one is looking at these songs from the pop or country aspect, they can all be classified as good to great music.

I highly recommend this album to those that are interested in listening to good music that is well written and performed by a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice who sings with an incomparable depth of emotion in each and every song; whether she's attempting to emote joy or sadness in her songs, she gets it down perfectly! {ssintrepid}


I hope Amazon doesn't pay its critics by the word   March 2, 2002
 11 out of 12 found this review helpful

I'll grant you, I like the album, but even if I didn't, I would still dislike this editorial review. I think that it's fully possible for anyone to contemplate points of view without the experience which led to adopting them, or to change their tone in describing their lives. You shouldn't buy this album if you don't think that Sheryl Crow should have done anything but write endless remakes of "All I Wanna Do."

In essence, this record captures all of the feelings associated with love that fails - "My Favorite Mistake," "Riverwide," "Maybe That's Something," "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind" all describe different aspects of disappointment, sadness or regret. There's a fair bit of funk in the drums and the wah-wah clavinets on "There Goes the Neighborhood," but it's the open-tuned Keith Richards chords that inform the listener of a conscious decision to return to harder, more basic sounds in rock. I don't think that Plastic Ono Band was seen as a step towards mediocrity and creative burnout for John Lennon, despite the fact that there were no Beatles-sized hits on it.

This record handles adult themes of loss and pain, and maybe it did rang as false for the Amazon reviewer as true for me and everyone else on this page. However, I did a search under Music for albums of his that unpaid reviewers awarded five stars, and not surprisingly there weren't any. Some people are famous and well-liked for a reason, and some albums simply have too much truth and power to be disregarded because they don't match the prejudices of the art worldlings.


Great album--"Phooey" to Amazon reviewer   July 6, 2002
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

In light of Sheryl Crow's latest album, the poppy, sparkling "C'mon C'mon", I had to go back and visit this, her previous effort, from four years earlier. For sure, there is a lot of difference between the two albums, but both deserve accolades for fantastic musicianship. In fact, of Sheryl's 4 releases, only the first one is worthy of less than 5 stars in my book. Since then, she has continued to grow musically. This third release is further proof of that.

"My Favorite Mistake" and "Anything But Down" showcase this album very well as two fine singles. Both are clever and typically understated Sheryl. However, I also enjoy the catchiness of "There Goes The Neighborhood", the melancholy of "The Difficult Kind", and the hard, distorted sound of the end of "Am I Getting Through (Parts I & II)". Unlike her latest album, this album is not overall pop-based, which perhaps explains its lesser sales compared to her other albums. Nontheless, I consider it equally as brilliant as anything else this remarkable artist has put out...this is truly another Sheryl Crow masterpiece.


Perspective   January 4, 2004
 9 out of 12 found this review helpful

I don't know if it's a good idea to put any of Sheryl Crow's music in the "masterpiece" category yet. The Beatles, Stones, Who, Beach Boys and some others have achieved masterpiece status with some of their work, but to put any of Crow's recordings in that company is premature. Indeed, the professional reviewer above is quite critical. In his ear, this CD sounds "prissy" and insincere. Most of the customer reviews here seem, in contrast, to be quite positive. To each his own.

I just acquired a copy of THE GLOBE SESSIONS a few days ago. I had seen the tape of a concert performance of the song "The Difficult Kind" a couple of years ago and liked it very much, but I didn't know the name of the song or what CD it might be on. When I discovered it on this CD, I got it immediately. I already owned her most recent CD, C'MON C'MON, and thought it was excellent, so the decision to buy THE GLOBE SESSIONS was an easy one. So far, I've only listened to it as few times, but I have not been disappointed. It, too, is an excellent CD. While I like some songs better than others, there isn't really a bad one in the whole collection. It's one of those rare sets you can listen to from beginning to end without skipping anything. Beats and textures vary, the musicianship is fine, Crow's voice is clear and expressive, and her clear enunciation of her lyrics doesn't bother me at all.

While I believe it's a little early to put Sheryl Crow in the same league with some of the great rock performers that have preceeded her, I confess that I am becoming a fan. I think THE GLOBE SESSIONS is a terrific CD. I like it every bit as much as C'MON C'MON, and thats' pretty high praise (from me, at least). Others will certainly differ, but I thoroughly enjoy listening to it and I recommend it highly.


Crow delivers the goods...again   April 5, 2000
 6 out of 7 found this review helpful

"The Globe Sessions" is certainly on a different par than "Tuesday Night Music Club" or "Sheryl Crow." The songs on her third release are not as easily accessible; "My Favorite Mistake" and "There Goes the Neighborhood" are certainly right at home on the radio, but elsewhere Sheryl pushes herself into bold new territory. The results may not always be ready for MTV but they are nothing short of an artistic triumph.

"Riverwide" boasts a haunting, poetic lyric, not to mention its Appalachian-inspired guitar and unique, sampled 3/4 rhythm. "Am I Getting Through" is darker than anything Crow has ever attempted previously, and the contrast between her quiet, gentle verses and her hard-thrashing choruses is chilling. The hidden track "Subway Ride," a funky marriage of rock to hip-hop, cleverly comments on the Clinton controversy. But the album's hands-down classic is "The Difficult Kind," a drop-dead gorgeous composition that matches country and rock so closely and warmly that it will no doubt win the heart of fans from either camp. And while the album as a whole has far more personal lyrics than her previous projects, "The Difficult Kind" finds her plainly vulnerable: "if you could only see/what love has made of me/then I'd no longer be/in your mind/the difficult kind." And when Sheryl reaches the near-height of her vocal range and sings "it makes me wanna cry," the listener feels exactly the same way.

From a commercial standpoint it's hard to beat "Sheryl Crow." But for bravery and uncommon beauty, even when the beats are hard and the guitars are cranked and distorted, it is near impossible to beat "The Globe Sessions."