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Shortly before the album's release, Crow had this to say about her new album and its contents:
Is it safe to say that the overall vibe on C'mon, C'mon is more upbeat than in your recent work?
I'm not sure I would wish my recording process on anybody else, but it usually winds up as a full circle experience. I usually go through this process of making a record when I go in: I have a pretty good idea of what kind of record I want to make and then I wind up making the exact opposite kind of record. And then in the end I look at it and it unfolds as being kind of what I wanted in the first place. In the last stage of making this record I sort of had a re-energizing experience that culminated from crashing in the middle of it.
Why the crash?
I had a couple of really down experiences that were not related to anything other than the fact that I had just been so overworked for the last few years. I allowed music to become my life instead of something that I do and my life being my life. I had Chrissie Hynde down to the studio to visit and I was sort of commiserating with her about how hard the business is and what it's like to be a woman. I said I just sometimes feel like I don't want to do it anymore, and I don't know what I'm writing about anymore, and I can't seem to finish anything and it's taken me longer to make a record. She said you have to realize that music is something that you do, it is not your life. And at that point I realized, if I didn't do it anymore, it would be okay, and life would still hold meaning. And with the freedom of knowing that, the record came together and really, weirdly enough, it was like having a rocket engine lit beneath it.
Chrissie Hynde doesn't appear on C'mon, C'mon but many other old and new friends of your's do. How do you feel about the fact that the album is so star-studded with the likes of Don Henley, Emmylou Harris, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, Liz Phair, Lenny Kravitz and Doyle Bramhall III?
It's kind of weird because when I got to the end of making the record I realized that there were a lot of people on this record and I got really worried about it. I got worried about how they all would be perceived and whether it would look like I was capitalizing on my relationships. But I realized that above all else, I really needed some support on this record emotionally. So I called people that were really good friends of mine, friends who have been kind of through the struggle with me. To have been really great allies just feels like a natural organic progression.
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(continued) ....staking her fertile turf as a singer-songwriter. Now with her latest shining gem, C'mon, C'mon, Crow has turned up the volume and loosened the mood to make the direct rock & roll album that made her want to make music in the first place.
C'mon, C'mon is an instant charmer of a rock album - an immediate road trip classic. For Crow the making of the album was a long, hard road. Indeed, even coming up with an appropriate title for the album seemed to take forever. "The original album title was going to be Songs from the Waiting Room because all the way through the process of making this record that title had a lot of meaning for me," says Crow. "But that title was in conflict with the spirit of the record."
Crow explains that she yearned to make an album "in the flavor of '70s and '80s classic rock - rock songs that were crafted, that you could sing; songs that were like the soundtrack to your summer - songs that were really committed to rock." And so it was that Crow found herself with a kick-ass album and no title to match. At the eleventh hour she speedily wrote and recorded the song "C'mon, C'mon" - a standout, crunchy rocker featuring Crow's longtime friend Stevie Nicks. "It just seemed to evoke the feeling of the rest of the record," Crow explains. And C'mon, C'mon is definitely an album with lots of feeling.
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