BOBBYCAST - Sheryl Crow on Meeting the Pope, Touring with Babies & Knowing She Was Ready to Adopt
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sheryl Crow joins Bobby to look back on some of the biggest moments in her life and career, from the surreal experience of meeting the Pope to the personal journey that led her to adoption. She shares how she knew she was ready to become a parent, what it was like touring with babies, and the adjustments that came with balancing motherhood and a massive music career. Sheryl also opens up about how adoption changed her priorities, how she made life on the road work with kids, and the moments that helped shape this next chapter of her life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.9 | Someday my kids are going to come back and say, |
| 0:13.2 | thank you, that you dragged us during midterms to fly over to Rome for 48 hours to meet the Pope. |
| 0:22.9 | Today's guest is a true music icon, one of my favorites ever. |
| 0:27.0 | It is Cheryl Crow. |
| 0:28.5 | Nine-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. |
| 0:32.4 | She has so many awesome songs. |
| 0:35.0 | Before becoming a superstar, she toured as a backup singer for Michael Jackson |
| 0:39.4 | on his bad tour way back in the day. And across more than three decades, she sold over 35 million |
| 0:44.9 | albums. Also becoming an advocate for cancer research, hunger relief, education. She is still |
| 0:51.9 | touring. Go watch her. Go to Cheryl Crow.com or to her socials. Go to shows |
| 0:55.7 | as we talk about. She still plays all the hits and she has a ton of them. Still making music and we're |
| 1:01.4 | going to talk now. Here is my conversation with one of my favorite artists of all time and one of |
| 1:06.7 | my favorite people of all time, Cheryl Crowe. Cheryl, great to see you. |
| 1:11.2 | Good to see you. |
| 1:11.8 | I always love seeing you. |
| 1:12.8 | I think the last time we saw each other was, can you name it? Well, was that your house? No, since then. Oh, where were we? Exactly. Exactly. Well, we were in an event. This is not one of those where I'm gotcha and you, because it'd be hilarious if you remembered because it wasn't like a formal setting. |
| 1:29.6 | It was a, yeah, where was it at a restaurant? |
| 1:43.7 | It was in a parking lot. It was in a parking lot. At the mall. That's right. Oh my God, that's right. Oh, my God, that is right. I was walking in Green Hills Mall. That's right. You're Bobby. And I was like, oh, no. Oh, Cheryl. Oh, okay. All good. Yes. I remember exactly. |
| 1:45.5 | It's great to see you. |
| 2:18.5 | It's good to see you too. And you're a new dad, and I love that. I am. I'm an old mom, and I love that too. But I'm just going to give you one little piece of advice. It goes really fast. People say that to me? Yeah. Write everything down. Like there are certain little things. Both my boys love hearing about funny things they said when they were little. And you'll forget them. You'll think I'm never going to forget this. And then as time goes on, you will write them down. Because they will love knowing that. It feels now that everything's going really slow. |
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