''The Globe Sessions'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter

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, released on September 21, 1998, in the United Kingdom and September 29, 1998, in the United States, then re-released in 1999. It was nominated for

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and Best Engineered Non-Classical Album at the 1999 Grammys, winning the latter two awards. ''The Globe Sessions'' reached 2 on the

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, while peaking at No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, achieving US sales of two million as of January 2008. The album was recorded at and named for the sessions recorded at Globe Recording Studio in New York owned by Robert FitzSimons and Tracey Loggia. In 2019 it was announced that the 2008 fire that swept through

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ultimately destroyed buildings belonging to

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. It has since emerged that ''The Globe Sessions'' was one of hundreds of albums to have had their studio masters completely destroyed, making any future remasters or reissues doubtful. Many unreleased tracks and alternate takes on songs have also been lost.

Track listing

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'', and also called the 'Pop Version' on the CD single. It differs from the 'Rock Version' used in the single music video. The European version features "Resuscitation" (Crow, Trott) as the twelfth track; the Japanese version contains the bonus tracks "Carolina" and "Resuscitation" (Crow, Trott). The Australian tour edition of the album (released in 1999) contains "Resuscitation", "Sweet Child o' Mine", and a bonus CD containing six songs recorded live at the Church of the Holy Trinity in

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, Canada on November 13, 1998:

Personnel

*Sheryl Crow – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, acoustic and electric 12 string guitar, National steel guitar, bass guitar, keyboards,

Hammond B-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated ...

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is concept ...

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tens ...

, harmonica, percussion *

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– acoustic and electric guitar (2, 3, 5–7, 10),

tremolo In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are two types of tremolo. The first is a rapid reiteration: * Of a single note, particularly used on bowed string instruments, by rapidly moving the bow back and f ...

guitar (1), 12 string guitar (4, 9), bass guitar (5),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos t ...

(8),

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 20 ...

(10) *Gregg Williams – drums (1, 2, 4–6, 10, 11), percussion (2, 5, 6, 10), tambourine (3), programming *

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– organ (3, 8), piano (7–9),

chamberlin The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by the American inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. There are several ...

(9) *

Mitchell Froom Mitchell Froom (born June 29, 1953) is an American musician and record producer. He was a member of the bands Gamma and Latin Playboys, and is currently the keyboardist for Crowded House. He has produced albums for several artists, including R ...

– clavinet and Orchestron (6) *

Lisa Germano Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album '' Geek the Girl'' (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by ''Spin'' magazine. She began her career as a violinist ...

–

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

(solo on 3, 4),

autoharp An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. The term ''autoharp'' was once a trademark of ...

(4) * Val McCallum – electric guitar (2, 10, 11) *

Wendy Melvoin Wendy Ann Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Prince as part of his backing band The Revolution, and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy ...

– guitar (1), bass guitar (4) *Todd Wolfe – electric guitar solo (4) *Tim Smith – bass (2) *Dan Rothchild –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

(3), bass guitar (7–9) *Dan McCarroll – drums (2, 7–9) *Jim Bogios – drums (4) *Trina Shoemaker – drum loop (3) *

Bobby Keys Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Ni ...

–

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian ( Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruse ...

tenor A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is wide ...

and

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contrab ...

(2) *Kent Smith – trumpet (2) *Michael Davis – trombone (2) *Avril Brown, Mark Feldman, Maura Giannini (−6), Matthew Pierce,

Lorenza Ponce Lorenza Ponce is an American violinist and string arranger. She has recorded six albums of her own music and has collaborated with other musicians, most notably as a touring musician with Sheryl Crow, The Dixie Chicks, Kitaro, Ben Folds Five, H ...

, Mary Rowell, Laura Seaton – violin (3, 6) *Michelle Kinney, Mary Wooten, Garo Yellin –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, ...

(6) *

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– string arrangement and conductor (6) *Kathy Crow – vocals (8) *David Russo: - programming

Production

*Producers: Sheryl Crow, ("Sweet Child o´Mine" produced by

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) *Executive Producer: Rory Kaplan *Engineers:

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*Additional recordings: S. Husky Höskulds *Assistant engineers: Brant Scott, Howard Willing, Ryan Baesch *Mixing:

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, Andy Wallace (tracks 2, 7–9) *Assistant mixing engineers: S. Husky Höskulds, Steve Sisco, Howard Willing *Mastering:

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*Digital engineer: Jeff Levison *Surround mix and digital mastering:

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*Production coordination: Brant Scott *Art direction and design: Jeri Heiden *Cover photography: Peter Lindbergh *Photographies inside: Tchad Blake

Accolades

Grammy Awards

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Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Notes

References

Globe Sessions Track Listing
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Globe Sessions, The 1998 albums Albums produced by Rick Rubin Sheryl Crow albums A&M Records albums Grammy Award for Best Rock Album Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical