I miss Sheryl C.!

[Josh2003]

Originally Posted by mike_nh

ok but dave does kinda stay in the background and let the artist he is working with shine. sheryl just whores herself out to every band and tv camera and benifit she can get near. in stevie's case if you remember back in 1999-2000 she had a pretty low point in her songwriting abilities so she went to tom petty and tom snapped her out of it. sheryl was around then. i'm sure she was using stevie's emotional lowpoint to furthur her own carear at that point.

As much as I love what Dave did for/with Stevie on IYD, I have to disagree with your notion that Dave stayed in the background...look at all of the videos for the IYD songs (Secret Love, For What It's Worth, Moonlight, Cheaper Than Free), and Dave has plastered himself all over them. He's very much made his presence on her work known...and while I don't love Sheryl's work on TISL (to me, it sounds boring, too watered down, too "raw"), to say that Dave gave up the limelight (my words, not yours, of course) is a bit inaccurate. I think to him, IYD was just as much HIS project as it was Stevie's.