Sheryl Crow’s 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, was a bittersweet experience. While hits like “All I Wanna Do” pushed the album to seven-times-platinum status, Crow’s friendships with the musicians she worked with — known as the Tuesday Night Music Club — fell apart amid allegations that Crow took too much credit. Epitomizing the animosity, TNMC producer Bill Bottrell called Crow “hopeless” and “obnoxious” in a 1996 Rolling Stone cover story.

So it was surprising that in August Crow dialed up Bottrell. (more…)