ALBUM REVIEW

SHERYL CROW - BE MYSELF

Although this is a return to form for Crow after 2013's country-based and too-cosy Feels Like Home, it's an odd pastiche of her 1990s work. The smart arrangements and interwoven guitar riffs on her classics such as All I Wanna Do, Every Day Is A Winding Road and A Change Would Do You Good are all here almost, but not quite, note for note.

Be Myself would be a pretty good album if it wasn't trying so hard to be Sheryl Crow c1996, but it does still have some good tracks, with the cute and catchy Grow Up standing out as the most original song on offer here. It's definitely an album worth listening to though if you're in need of a new shot of Sheryl Crow.

7/10

Phil Page