he was born November 1963, the day Aldous Huxley died . . . ” In August 1993, that oh-so-smart lyric – delivered conversationally, over
a spare, rolling piano and three searing electric guitar chords – kicked off Sheryl Crow’s just-released Tuesday Night Music Club. Lightly gospel, attenuated, and striding, the album’s first single, “Run, Baby, Run,” entwined story, musicianship, and a dusky voice that could question and witness at the same time. Intelligent, genre-curious, and featuring some of Los Angeles’ best session players, Crow’s engaging debut album exemplified what Album Rock Radio of the seventies and eighties had wrought.