SONG OF THE DAY
“Everyday Is a Winding Road” by Sheryl Crow (Sheryl Crow, A&M Records, 1996). Written by Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trott & Brian MacLeod.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– “Everyday Is a Winding Road” is the second single from American rock star Sheryl Crow’s 1996 self-titled album.
– The song met well with radio and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
– Neil Finn, lead singer of Crowded House, provides backing vocals.
– Paul Hester, another member of the band, was the inspiration for the song.
– This song is accompanied with a music video, directed by Peggy Sirota, filmed in sepia tone in New York City which features a toy airplane flying from person to person throughout the city.
– It also garnered a nomination for Record of the Year at the 1998 Grammy Awards but lost to “Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin.
– The song was covered by Prince on his 1999 album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.
– The song was used in several 2006 and 2007 Subaru commercials and in the films Erin Brockovich and Phenomenon.
– Sheryl Crow is the second album by American singer Sheryl Crow. Reaching #6 on the Billboard 200 and #5 on the UK Album Chart, Sheryl Crow has sold 2.9 million units in the US as of January 2008 and is certified 3x platinum.
– The song “Love Is a Good Thing” contains the lyrics “Watch out sister, watch out brother, watch our children while they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores” (in criticism of Wal-Mart’s gun sales policy). For this reason, sales of the album were banned at Wal-Mart stores.
– “Redemption Day” was covered by Johnny Cash on his second posthumous record, American VI: Ain’t No Grave.
– Sheryl Crow is featured in “Vital Pop: 50 Essential Pop Albums” list by Slant magazine.
– Rolling Stone selected it as one of the essential albums of that decade in 1999, while naming the self-titled effort the 44th greatest album of all time by a female artist in 2002.
– In 2008, Entertainment Weekly magazine placed the album at #39 in their list of Top 100 Best Albums of the past 25 years.