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This is your host, DJ Louis X.

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of those parties are available in the show notes of this episode. So I'm hoping to see people out

all across this great land at Gorgeous Gorgeous. This week's episode is a deep dive into the career

of 90s pop rock icon Cheryl Crow. This was a really fascinating deep dive and discussion. And I really

hope that those of us who remember Cheryl Crow and all of her amazing hits get to take a trip

down memory lane with this. And for those who are less familiar with Cheryl Crow, get a taste

into how she's obviously been a huge influence on a lot of contemporary pop figures from Boy Genius to

to Hyme to Marin Morris and Casey Musgraves.

So this is an episode for everybody, both those who feel nostalgic for every day as a winding

road and those who might want to learn something new about, a great icon of 90s pop and 90s

rock. So without further ado, here is Pop Pantheon Cheryl Crow.

Cheryl Crow's music engenders the sensation of having always been there.

A true and proud classicist steeped in and proudly referential to the rock gods of her youth,

like the Rolling Stones, Mavis Staples, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Nix, Cheryl's biggest hits, often freewheeling, slightly gravelly but slightly glistening rock bangers replete with absolutely infectious pop hooks,

feel like they're part of the American songbook. And yet Cheryl is also very much a product

of a specific moment of 90s pop culture when quote women with

guitars took center stage from Lisfair to Alanis Morissette to Courtney Love each doing their

take on Gen X pop feminism in a way that feels completely of its moment and also strangely

prescient of contemporary discourse. What's more, Crow's impact and style seems absolutely critical

to a plethora of modern superstars, from Boy Genius

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