And the Hello and the So Dijaker on Songwriting Podcast, this is Simon, joined as always by Brian, and with us

for episode 270 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and recent inductee into the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. To date she sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.

Across a career spanning well over three decades, she's recorded or performed with the likes of Prince,

the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Stevie Nix, Johnny Cash, Emmilu Harris, Luciano Pavarotti,

Chris Christophoson and many more.

Earlier this year she released her 12th studio album, Evolution, co-produced with Mike Elizondo.

We are thrilled to welcome the fantastic Cheryl Crow to the podcast.

We were lucky enough to meet Cheryl a few weeks ago in London while she was in the UK doing some live dates and she more

than met our expectations didn't she break? She sure did she was super cool and

down to earth and just a pleasure to chat with. Cheryl was born in born in Kennet, Missouri in 1962.

Edad Wendell, a lawyer by profession, was also a trumpet player,

while Mum Bernice sang and tour piano and both performed in an amateur swing band

on the weekends.

Their daughter proved similarly musical from a very early age,

picking out tunes by ear on the piano

and taking lessons from the age of five.

Her parents were also keen record collectors and Cheryl would spend hours of

missing herself in the classic songwriting of albums like George Harrison's All Things Must Pass,

James Taylor's mudslides, Slim and the Blue Horizon, Elton John's goodby Yellow Brick Road and the Stones exile on Main Street.

Our guest penned their first song, The Thirteen, for a songwriting competition, the brief for which was to come up with a state

theme song for Missouri. After high school she went on to major in music at the University of Missouri,

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