Sheryl Crow throughout a meeting with host Seth Meyers on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on March 28, 2024. Lloyd Bishop/NBC
Sheryl Crow has a good friend in Olivia Rodrigo. While talking concerning her brand-new cd Evolution on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday evening (March 28), the 62-year-old singer-songwriter opened concerning her bond with the “Drivers License” vocalist.
“I met her at Billboard Women in Music and I just really liked her,” Crow remembered. “I’d already had her record and I loved the way she wrote. It’s very punk, it’s like the Breeders meets Deborah Harry.”
Both ladies existed at the 2022 Billboard Women in Music event, where the “Strong Enough” musician offered Rodrigo with Woman of the Year. “Sheryl, I am such a massive fan of you and your songwriting and I’m so grateful that you’re here,” the previous Disney celebrity stated in her acceptance speech. “It really means the world.”
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In November, it was Rodrigo’s turn to turn up for her close friend, with both carrying out “If It Makes You Happy” with each other at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame event in honor of Crow’s 2023 induction. Since after that, the duo have actually sung the 1996 hit side-by-side at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and, most lately, at one of the “Vampire” musician’s Guts World Tour programs.
Backstage at the RRHOF event, Crow informed Billboard of her link with Rodrigo: “All I can say is I paid homage to the women that were before me, and I know how much they mean to me. I don’t take it lightly at all. I still look to them — my friendship with Stevie Nicks is genuine, but I’m still in awe of her. Yeah, I don’t take it lightly.”
“I’m so impressed with how down to earth and together she is, like unfazed by it,” Crow included of Rodrigo to Meyers. “I’ve gotten to know her since then, and I adore her.”
Released Friday (March 29), Evolution marks Crow’s very first cd considering that 2019’s Threads. Rodrigo additionally lately introduced a brand-new collection, going down the luxurious variation of her Billboard 200-topping student document Guts recently.
Watch Crow’s Late Night With Seth Meyers meeting over.
