In the end, she fell in with a songwriting collective, the Tuesday Music Club, through her then-boyfriend Kevin Gilbert. Each week, they'd gather in Pasadena and try to write a complete song before dawn broke. The sessions were recorded by Michael Jackson's producer Bill Bottrell for "about two cents" and released as Crow's debut album in 1993. Blending roots, Americana, emotional confessions, melody and intelligence, the album was slow to catch fire. In the UK, Danny Baker was an early champion, playing the singles Run, Baby Run and Leaving Las Vegas on BBC Radio 1 - but it was the slice-of-life bar room anthem All I Wanna Do that turned the album's fortunes around, much to Crow's surprise.

Artificial intelligence dominated the conversation in Hollywood this year, from stars like Sheryl Crow and Simon Cowell expressing concerns, to others like Howie Mandel embracing the technology.

At her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction interview backstage, Sheryl Crow told reporters that AI inspired her to write a song to deal with her fear of the technology. Sheryl Crow found inspiration for her new album from artificial intelligence, though she said the technology left her "terrified." At her induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this month, Crow said she hadn't intended to do another album, planning instead to just release songs. But then "when the whole AI thing started coming out, particularly with the Beatles thing, and also having witnessed how AI is being used in my art form, I wrote a song about it." She continued, "I was terrified, and where do I go when I'm terrified? I go to my studio," adding, "And I found myself writing just one thing after another, and lo and behold I had 10 songs."