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latimesblogs.latimes.com : Album review: Sheryl Crow's '100 Miles From Memphis' By Ann Powers

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"Sheryl Crow’s seventh studio album is a summer skinny-dip into the retro-soul sound that has updated ’60s nostalgia for the post hip-hop generation. With a title invoking the distance between Crow’s Missouri hometown and the home of Elvis and Al Green, it’s more an exploration of the rhythm-and-blues diaspora than a straightforward re-creation of any particular Southern sound. (...)"