Sheryl Crow says she got the RockHall news at her kid’s baseball game.
Sheryl Crow appears at the Seventh Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC Benefit Concert for God's Love We Deliver at Beacon Theatre on March 09, 2023 in New York City.“This is like the best Wednesday ever,” Sheryl Crow says over the phone on the morning the Rock & Roll Hall of FameRelatedThe singer-songwriter has been eligible for the Rock Hall for a few years but finds herself joining the club after her first appearance on the ballot – which she says was a genuine surprise.
The 2023 induction is particularly meaningful for the rootsy hitmaker given that Willie Nelson – whom she hails as “one of the greatest people to ever walk this planet” — will find himself inducted alongside her come Nov. 3 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Of the seven new inductees, Crow and Rage Against the Machine are the mostly traditionally ‘rock’ acts in the Class of 2023. The institution has, in recent years, started to expand the sometimes narrow perimeters that define rock music to include artists more commonly associated with genres like pop, hip-hop and country.
“He’s a person that, in his unique way, stands up for what he believes in. For me, he sums up rock and roll – he is exactly who he is when he walks on stage,” Crow says. “I think we’ve all cut our teeth on what he’s written, and he’s written some of the most important songs in the American catalog.”
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