Album Review: Threads by Sheryl Crow

Multi-genre artist, trailblazer and humanitarian Sheryl Crow brought out all the bells and whistles on her latest album, Threads.   On what's being called her final full-length, Crow has amassed a collection of 17 songs, some new and old, of various genres from country, rock, folk and beyond, into a single record. To make it more interesting, each song is a duet with another legendary artist — Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Mavis Staples among them, as well as more modern icons like Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile and St ….

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Teased upon its release as Sheryl Crow's final album -- a promise that seems perhaps a tad premature for an artist who was just 57 upon the record's release -- Threads is intended as a summation of her musical worldview. Specifically, it's designed to draw connections between Crow, her idols, and the generations who followed her, all through a variety of covers, collaborations, and duets. The cast of characters is formidable, encompassing titans and hipsters along with a host of musicians who are happy to cruise along in the middle of the road.

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W ith her 11th and reportedly final album, Sheryl Crow undertakes a confident albeit meandering victory lap. Across 17 songs and 75 minutes of frayed Americana and back-porch country she collaborates with no fewer than 23 artists, each one representing either Crow's musical idols turned friends (Keith Richards, Stevie Nicks) or new-ish musicians she sees as the future (St Vincent, Maren Morris). Most of the 12 originals, four covers and one reworking of her own anti-war anthem Redemption Day loosely fall under the umbrella of protest songs, with the Chuck D-assisted Story of Everything touching on political idiocy, while opener Prove You Wrong tackles sexism and, as she recently told the LA Times, the sentiment of: "if anyone thinks that I can't, let me just show you that I can.

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