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Sheryl Crow Admits She Struggled with Being Labeled a Legacy Artist Until She Hit the Stage at Bonnaroo · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Term legacy artist is used to umbrella any iconic performer
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Speaker 2: who's graduated, so to speak, from being a pop radio mainstay,
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Speaker 2: to getting more spins on classic rock or hip hop
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Speaker 2: stations or pop radio aimed at a more mature audience,
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Speaker 2: and should be told some artists struggle with the label.
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Speaker 2: In fact, Cheryl Crow admits to American Songwriter she struggled
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Speaker 2: with it for a long time until a single moment
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Speaker 2: at a music festival changed her entire outlook. She was
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Speaker 2: saying that being labeled a legacy artist didn't feel celebratory
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Speaker 2: until she walked out on stage at Bonnaroo and saw
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Speaker 2: sixty five thousand people younger than Cheryl's singing her songs.
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Speaker 2: Her quote is, that's when I realized your music isn't
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Speaker 2: the music of their generation, but it was part of
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Speaker 2: their growing up and they were exposed to it because
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Speaker 2: of their parents or radio. That is a gift to
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Speaker 2: be a part of that soundtrack to people's lives. I
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Speaker 2: couldn't ask for anything more humbling than that. Cheryl Crow
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Speaker 2: was also recently humbled by being one of the recent
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Speaker 2: inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this
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Speaker 2: past November.
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