"The Globe Sessions" is Sheryl Crow's third album and among those first three, in my opinion, her most exciting one. It's quite easy to tell that with this album she was making the music that she wanted to make and not just music that was approved by studio executives. Among the most impressive aspects of this particular album for me are the tracks that would definitely be classified as country or country rock. I am by no means a country music fan but if they all sounded like this beautiful Missouri girls brand of it, I certainly would be.

Apart from the most popular song on the album "My Favorite Mistake," which has received more than ample airtime over the years, this album is populated with some of Sheryl Crow's best material to date. Whether one is looking at these songs from the pop or country aspect, they can all be classified as good to great music.

I highly recommend this album to those that are interested in listening to good music that is well written and performed by a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice who sings with an incomparable depth of emotion in each and every song; whether she's attempting to emote joy or sadness in her songs, she gets it down perfectly! {ssintrepid}

I'll grant you, I like the album, but even if I didn't, I would still dislike this editorial review. I think that it's fully possible for anyone to contemplate points of view without the experience which led to adopting them, or to change their tone in describing their lives. You shouldn't buy this album if you don't think that Sheryl Crow should have done anything but write endless remakes of "All I Wanna Do."

In essence, this record captures all of the feelings associated with love that fails - "My Favorite Mistake," "Riverwide," "Maybe That's Something," "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind" all describe different aspects of disappointment, sadness or regret. There's a fair bit of funk in the drums and the wah-wah clavinets on "There Goes the Neighborhood," but it's the open-tuned Keith Richards chords that inform the listener of a conscious decision to return to harder, more basic sounds in rock. I don't think that Plastic Ono Band was seen as a step towards mediocrity and creative burnout for John Lennon, despite the fact that there were no Beatles-sized hits on it.

This record handles adult themes of loss and pain, and maybe it did rang as false for the Amazon reviewer as true for me and everyone else on this page. However, I did a search under Music for albums of his that unpaid reviewers awarded five stars, and not surprisingly there weren't any. Some people are famous and well-liked for a reason, and some albums simply have too much truth and power to be disregarded because they don't match the prejudices of the art worldlings.

This is really an incredible album. I always give credit where credit is due. As in when I used to look at Prince and, with my Jazz and Classically trained musical snobbery, say "How ridiculous..", but then, with age - (and a certain amount of humility) - I came to discover that the man truly knows his music, his style, his performing strengths.

Same goes here for Sheryl Crow. She really puts it out in this album, and she seems to know how - in a strong and confident way.

Thoroughly enjoyable... - which is why I can't understnad the Amazon.com's reviewer's comments. - WAY off base if you ask me.

He must've not been looked at by Sheryl the way he REALLY wanted to be looked at by Sheryl - while attending a Live concert of hers once... Maybe.

His (or her) sophomoric & [what seem to be] personally motivated comments aside, I'd highly recommend this album.

Sheryl Crow's third album, "The Globe Sessions", is by far her most subdued. The mellow tracks here allude to a depression that has been present, but not blatant, in all of her albums thus far.

The record kicks off with "My Favorite Mistake", a mid-tempo guitar number which finds her hanging on to an unfaithful lover. The Celtic-inspired acoustic track "Riverwide", the slow grunge of "Maybe That's Something", and the hushed "Crash and Burn" further proclaim Crow's melancholy. Not all the songs here are downers, though. "There Goes The Neighborhood" uses a clap track, horns, and loose guitar riffs to make a great party song, and "Mississippi", a southern-style Bob Dylan cover, is very upbeat.

The best track on "The Globe Sessions" is undoubtedly "The Difficult Kind." Crow uses slide guitars and a string section to present an amazing piece of southern blues rock. Her vocals are outstanding, and the songwriting, which is at its most honest, states: "They're ain't nothing like regret to remind you you're alive."

Using every kind of sound effect from phone noises to radio static to underscore the instrumentals, which are great on their own, this is truly a fantastic rock album. After all, it was named Best Rock Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards.

Don't miss the hidden track "Subway Ride" which starts after about 20 seconds of silence at the end of "Sweet Child o'Mine", which is track 12. It's one of the better songs on the CD.

The official Amazon reviewer is crazy, as proven by this album winning the Grammy for Best Rock Album of the Year, and the Amazon customer reviews having more 5's than all other ratings combined.