Veteran songstress Sheryl Crow has just premiered the music video at VH1 and CMT simultaneously, for "Summer Day," the willowy uptempo track that will serve as the lead single off her forthcoming seventh studio album "1000 Miles from Memphis," which is expected to have a classic soul vibe and featured guest spots from Keith Richards, Justin Timberlake, and Citizen Cope, and is due for release July 20. The album title makes reference to her hometown of Kennett, Missouri and "its proximity to one of music cultures historic hotbeds, Memphis, Tennessee.""Summer Day" is a slow-grooving, sultry, horn-laden salute to summer and love, which are often entwined. It is also a delightfully breezy slice of glory-days AM radio pop. "I wanted to experiment with writing something simple and positive," says Crow. "The feeling of a great, solid love—not just a new love, but something everlasting." It doesn't sound 100 miles from Memphis to us, it sounds like it is right in the heart of the music loving town with its sweet, '60s vibe and slow and easy feel.
It's been a while since we've heard any new tunes from Crow. The trendsetting musician has high hopes for her latest foray on the pop-rock scene. Crow shows you what's the best way to spend summer and has all her summer clichés in place for the video for "Summer Day," which was shot in Nashville with acclaimed director Wayne Isham in June. The clip captures of people enjoying the summer are flashed while Crow delivers a groovy performance with her band in a park. Some are playing hula hoops and the others are either sitting on a bench while listening to music or canoeing in the lake nearby in a lovely summery day. She wrote on her official website, "My friend Keith Megna made an amazing 'Summer Day' video for us - inspired by a great day in Central Park and our actual studio recording of the song."
Crow's music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound, and her fresh, updated spin on classic roots rock made her one of the most popular mainstream rockers of the '90s. Her albums were loose and eclectic on the surface, yet were generally tied together by polished, professional songcraft. Crow's sunny, good-time rockers and world-weary ballads were radio staples for much of the '90s, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Although her songwriting style was firmly anchored to the rock tradition, she wasn't a slave to it -- her free-associative, reference-laden poetry could hardly have been the product of any era but the '90s. Her production not only kept pace with contemporary trends, but sometimes even pushed the envelope of what sounds could be heard on a classicist rock album, especially on her self-titled sophomore effort. All of this made Crow one of the most dependable stars of the decade, and she showed no signs of relinquishing her hard-won success in the new millennium. By the way, my favorite her song is "Always on Your Side," re-recorded with British musician Sting.
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