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100 Miles from Memphis
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  • Summary: Sheryl Crow's seventh album takes a soulful musical direction for the singer-songwriter and features guest appearances from Justin Timberlake and Keith Richards.
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  • Record Label: A&M
  • Genre(s): Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, American Trad Rock
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Summer Day
Every little thing that I felt that day Never will forget there was love in the air I wasn't lookin' for love to come my way Oh, baby, baby, but then... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. American Songwriter
    80
    It may have taken her over 20 years, but today Sheryl Crow is retrieving and expanding upon those parts of her artistic sensibility that had always been there.
  2. AllMusic
    80
    There's an ease to this record that's not often heard on Sheryl Crow's albums and its light touch is thoroughly appealing.
  3. Billboard.com
    77
    A tendency to let the songs run too long notwithstanding, this 100 Miles is a path Crow was certainly wise to tread.
  4. musicOMH.com
    60
    Crow has returned to the kind of music she loved as a kid growing up in the shadow of one of America's hottest soul hotbeds. The result finds her sounding more at home and effortlessly exuberant than she has since Tuesday Night Music Club.
  5. PopMatters
    60
    What makes 100 Years, Crow's seventh album of originals, intriguing is how cathartic all of the soul grooves and slinky funkiness feels coming from Crow.
  6. Uncut
    60
    The best song is Terrence Trwnt D'Arby's Sign Your Name." Slightly damning, that. [Sep 2010, p.91]
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  7. The Guardian
    40
    Despite living through cancer and recurring heartbreak, Crow's voice lacks the emotional force for soul.

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  1. aybesea
    Dec 13, 2016
    10
    This is my second favorite Sheryl Crow album (after the eponymous second album). With that being said, this is one of the most played albumsThis is my second favorite Sheryl Crow album (after the eponymous second album). With that being said, this is one of the most played albums in my library. It's got that gritty, good time blue eyed soul feel of Dusty Springfield. The songs are infectious and a whole lot of fun! Wish she'd do another run at soul... she's really very good at it.… Expand
  2. Ricko
    May 22, 2016
    7
    After years of high quality albums, touring and general hard work, "100 Miles from Memphis" sounds like a some well deserved self indulgence,After years of high quality albums, touring and general hard work, "100 Miles from Memphis" sounds like a some well deserved self indulgence, a gift from Sheryl Crow to herself. The presence of 3 covers as well as a move away from her own trademark rootsy rock style further points to this. Crow is experimenting with soul music here and this can be heard particularly on the rhythm sections behind some of the songs. "100 miles from Memphis" has a few nice moments (opener "Our love is Fading" and "Peaceful Feeling" are particularly strong numbers) and the production is pretty lush throughout. However, too often across this record I'm tending to miss the country folk/rock Sheryl Crow that I know and love,a genre in which she is so accomplished. Granted, the album does improve on repeating listening but the general point still stands. Worth checking out for fans of hers but newcomers to Sheryl Crow won't want to start here.… Expand

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