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Sheryl Crow Is Ready to Fight the Power in Nashville: ‘I Call My Representatives Every Single Morning’
In a Power of Women: Nashville cover story, Sheryl Crow talks about being a mom, taking heat for her activism, and why she calls her reps every morning.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is also looking forward to hitting the road in a few months as part of the “Outlaw Music Festival Tour” headlined by her friends Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. But part of Crow’s existence is defined by not wanting what she hasn’t got — like a repeat of her past chart successes or a busy social calendar or a bigger sense of herself than befits her lifestyle as a mom living out in the country. “I tried to read Eckhart Tolle’s ’A New Earth’ years ago,” Crow says over tea in a downtown Nashville restaurant, referring to the bestseller about living “in the now.” “And there were so many ’teaching moments’ that at first I didn’t get all the way through it.” Then she began rereading it during COVID, when she was “having so many close friends and family start to pull apart because of their perception of vaccinations and everything.
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