Sheryl Crow brings country to Bend

Published 12:31 am Friday, July 10, 2015

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Sheryl Crow never had a problem logging hits on pop radio. Remember “All I Wanna Do,” “A Change Would Do You Good,” “Soak Up the Sun” or “If It Makes You Happy?” If you turned on the radio and tuned to a pop-rock station in the ’90s or early 2000s, chances are high you’d land on a Crow song.

These days, though, you’re just as likely to hear Crow on country stations. In 2013, she made the not-so-surprising leap to the genre with the album “Feels Like Home.”

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Not surprising because Crow isn’t the first ’90s pop-rock star to find a second wind thanks to Nashville — with Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker (who has collaborated with Crow) this is perhaps the most high profile case.

Also, this isn’t surprising because Crow had been heading down this path already, long before she announced she was working on a country album, even before she moved to Nashville in the mid-2000s. Her songs always had a bit of country storytelling in them, and her instrumentation — while not overtly twangy the way “Feels Like Home” is — drew from Americana roots music as much as sunny, California rock.

Which isn’t to say Crow will ignore her sunny, California rock when she plays the Les Schwab Amphitheater on Monday. Just don’t be surprised if there’s some twang on it.

Sheryl Crow; 6:30 p.m. Monday, doors open at 5 p.m.; $45-$85 plus service fees; Les Schwab Amphitheater, 322 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Bend; www.bendconcerts.com or 541-318-5457. — Brian McElhiney

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