Love Is a Good Thing

Sheryl Crow recorded Love Is a Good Thing amid a shift in sound that defined her second album. The song, clocking in at four minutes and forty-three seconds, sounds like a cross between raw rock and a blues with a hint of gentle protest. It’s not just another ballad: the track moves forward with a guitar that pounds like a hammer and lyrics that don’t ask permission to address what’s happening around us. The entire album, Sheryl Crow, she essentially crafted almost entirely on her own—a rarity in an era when albums were typically collective projects. At Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, with the humid heat of Louisiana lingering in the background, Crow shaped a sound that blended the raw with the polished, pairing acoustic guitars with riffs reminiscent of the old Rolling Stones.