Some critics have compared Crow’s talent on multiple instruments to Prince, though she says she doesn’t compare and calls Prince “the most anointed musician” she’s ever worked with. “It was the mystery and the sounds they were making that made me believe that I could leave my little town and go find a life doing this thing that I loved.” “At the heart of who I am, I'm still the girl who grew up in a three-stoplight town,” she says. The documentary also captures many of Crow’s tremendous career highs, including a duet on the song “Strong Enough” with Stevie Nicks, and hearing singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile credit her career to watching Crow perform at Lilith Fair.Īnecdotes like Carlile’s mean a lot to Crow because artists like Nicks, Carole King and James Taylor gave her a way out of her hometown, she says. But to have been sort of tricked, it was definitely a dark moment.” “It took me a long time to absolve myself from it, even though I'd never known him. I was just I was really broken,” she says. She says that devastating experience changed everything. The author died by suicide weeks after Crow’s Letterman appearance and some of the public blamed her, though O’Brien’s family absolved Crow. The song title was also the name of a 1990 book by John O'Brien. Sort of, she replied, because she’d left Los Angeles. Later that year, Crow appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” to play her single “Leaving Las Vegas.” Letterman asked Crow if the song was autobiographical. Who knows if this will ever see the light of day? But I've used your poem and I'm going to give you 50% of songwriting on this song.' ” she says. “I called the guy and was like, 'I know you don't know me. Crow couldn’t rewrite his 1987 poem "Fun" in a way that matched its energy, she says, so she called the writer to ask to use his words. After shelving her planned debut album in 1992, Crow’s first big hit came in 1994, with “All I Want to Do.” The song came from a session where the band jammed while Crow read from a book of poetry by Wyn Cooper.
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