Sheryl Crow

And the whole thing came about at such a strange, you know, Lollapalooza was happening.

And every time, like I can remember calling my agent and saying, can I get some women on a bill?

Like I'd love to tour with Amy Mann.

And every time it would be like, yeah, people won't buy tickets to see two women on a bill, particularly men, men won't.

And around that time, Sarah had this crazy idea.

And she wound up calling me and I was just, God, it's just a perfect time for it.

All that to say is that what we took out on the stage was, it was defiance, but it was also like community.

It was a little bit of a gentle fuck you to the norms.

The fact that

Yeah, there were quite a few, um, you know, there were quite a few gay women in the audience, but there were as many families and as many heterosexual couples and as many men.

I mean, it was totally everything.

So it defied what all the agents and the promoters were saying, like, you're just going to wind up with an audience full of women and they're, and they're not going to, they're not the ones that buy tickets.

And she really defied that in her beautiful, um,

um, genteel, um, gypsy way.

And she brought everybody along with it.

It was, it felt like we were taking a party out on the stage and hopefully people did feel like they were included.

Yeah.

I had a brilliant conversation with Brandy Carlisle about it and her being in the audience as a young, you know, as a young girl and wanting to do what we were up there doing.

Um, and there's, there's such beautiful power in that.

It really was not like anything else that I've ever been a part of.