Everyday Is a Winding Road
Everyday Is a Winding Road is the second single from Sheryl Crow’s 1996 self-titled album. Neil Finn of Crowded House provides backing vocals, and Paul Hester inspired the song. It was released in the UK in November 1996 and in the US in 1997. The track reached #11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the UK Singles Chart, while it topped the Canadian chart, giving Crow her fourth and final Canadian number-one single. The song was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Record of the Year, but lost to Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin. Billboard and The Guardian later named it Crow’s second-best song.
The music video, directed by Peggy Sirota, was filmed in sepia-toned New York City and features a toy airplane moving from person to person. Musically, the song is in D-flat mixolydian with a tempo of about 100 BPM. Some critics noted a resemblance to the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil.
It was released in several formats, including US 7-inch and CD singles, European/Japanese CD, and UK CD releases (one with four postcards).
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