Sheryl's journal
 

From Architectural Digest (Sheryl Crow's Hollywood home):
"A writing table by LDC Home gives Crow a place to put thoughts down in her
journal, a gift from Stevie Nicks".
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/i...vibrations.jpg
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/h...ations_article

I've been wondering if their friendship had cooled since Sheryl skipped out on joining the Mac. You don't ever hear them talk about each other in the media anymore. This seems to be proof to me that they're still buddies! :)

I wish someone would give me a 2600 dollar desk.

I think the journal was the gift, not the desk!

Still... not sure if those two besties anymore. That journal could have been sitting there on that desk since 2001 for all we know. We haven't heard about Sheryl Crow guesting on Stevie's new album, so I think that says it all right there.

What was the story with Sheryl and the Mac?

I thought Sheryl said something to the press about a project with (if not outright joining) Fleetwood Mac...and then Lindsey and co. responded by saying they didn't even know Sheryl and had no idea where she was coming from.

Is there more to the story?

Basically, the story with Sheryl, Stevie, and the Mac is this. Stevie felt outnumbered and alone as a woman in Fleetwood Mac following Christine's departure. Stevie talked about wanting to bring on another woman as a counterpoint. There was some discussion with Sheryl, who was a good friend of Stevie's and who had previously produced some of Stevie's album tracks from her album Trouble In Shangri La. Then Sheryl jumped the gun and started saying in the media that she was indeed joining Fleetwood Mac... before it had really been officially decided. This appeared to greatly anger Lindsey. Sheryl then ended up backing out of touring with the Mac following this very public discourse... which then set Stevie off.

In the end, I think it was a good thing Sheryl didn't join the band. Not that she wouldn't have been a neat addition. But I think the problem with Fleetwood Mac was the lack of dialogue between Stevie and Lindsey. I think they avoided really getting into it and letting their true feelings and desires be known during the Say You Will project. I think this lack of communication/honesty is why the album was so disjointed. I sense that Stevie and Lindsey have probably screamed and yelled at each other since, and that all parties agreed that SYW was a failure... and a different approach is needed next time around. I think they probably all realize now too that adding Sheryl would have just been slapping a band aid on an injury that actually required major surgery to heal.

My vote is that the table was the gift from Stevie. A mere journal would seem a bit on the lite side for someone as well to do as Stevie. And the subject of the picture and caption is, afterall, the table. I can see Stevie gifting Sheryl with the table and telling her she needed a special place to write, as I can only imagine that Stevie probably has a very fabulous place where she writes. Just my thought. That the story about Sheryl joining Fleetwood Mac was about a year before her breast cancer diagnosis and announcement has always made me wonder how one may have impacted the other, if at all.

The name of this one made me laugh..

http://www.ldchome.com/Phuket-Lounge_p_1359.html

Not according to the structure of that sentence. I think it's the journal.

Assuming the article is grammatically correct, the journal is the gift from Stevie. If it's in fact the table that she gave Sheryl, then we've got a misplaced modifier on our hands.

Stevie said this in 2009: “We rented a studio and hired a crew,” Stevie said. “We were ready to go in and called her and needed her to come for two or three days to just play. It was Mother’s Day and she had invited 300 people in her family there. It was her first Mother’s Day as a mom and she could not do it. At that point she said “I am going to have to pass”. I said “I think you are making the right decision. You have a new baby, you have survived breast cancer and Lance Armstrong. I don’t think this is the right thing for you”. That is what happened with Sheryl Crow. She is still our friend and I still adore her. She is one of my dearest friends”.

While Sheryl came close to joining, no other female has been considered. “As far as having another girl in the band, after we went through that we really realised that there wasn’t going to be another woman that could come into this band who could fit,” she said. “I was looking at it three years ago as a buffer between me and Lindsey. Lindsey and I don’t need a buffer. Certainly Sheryl Crow and not any woman in the world is going to be able to get in the middle of Lindsey and me. The fact is if Lindsey and I can’t work out our problems by ourselves we might as well throw in the towel. That's what we are currently trying to do is work out own problems and certainly another person could not do that for us. Think about this – Christine has been gone since 1998 so I have been the only girl in this band for a long, long time. I’m used to it now. At first I was not used to it. After ‘The Dance’ was horrifying for me. She has been gone time and I’m fine with it now”.

By the way, Sheryl was at the Nashville Unleashed show (and I'm sure others), photographed with Stevie. Sheryl was quoted after the fiasco of saying that she was still friends with all of them. So, I don't think there was any hard feelings. But, I do think Stevie was a bit put out with Lindsey for spilling the beans that she and Sheryl actually had words over the situation. I think Stevie got more miffed with Sheryl than she wanted everyone to know, but Lindsey certainly knew about it and then blabbed it and Stevie spent the next several interviews putting her positive spin on it and saying what great friends they were.

Hilarious!

Agreed. Journal.

After Sheryl Crow jumped the gun with the announcement I saw an interview of Stevie where she said that it was her that convinced Sheryl not to join and tour with the Mac because it was an impossible commitment and you couldn't call in sick to Fleetwood mac. She said she knew that if it came down to doing a show or spending mohter's day with her baby, Stevie knew that Sheryl was the kind of person that wouldn't want to be away from her child. So Stevie's advice to Sheryl was to make 1000% sure that you are up for this.

I'll try to find the interview

I think she gave her the journal, but I like your point. If Stevie said she was giving me a gift and it turned out to be a journal, I'd be a little disappointed, even if it was a nice, leather bound one with gilded pages.

But that's ok, I'm sure she's given Sheryl tons of pricey stuff, not to mention the gifts she's lavished on her sons.

Michele

The thing is, Stevie is a writer and poet. She's famous for her journals she's always kept. There's no doubt in my mind it was the journal Stevie gave Sheryl. That would be a very Stevie thing to do. And I wouldn't discount the price of that journal... it's clearly bound in very expensive leather, with very expensive gold leaf edged paper. Perhaps Sheryl was in a down period in regards to creativity... and Stevie presented her with the journal as an encouragement to write or something :)