Disc One: 1. Angel take #1, 2. Angel take #2, 3. Angel take #3, 4. Angel take #4, 5. Everyday Is A Winding Road, 6. Strong Enough take #1, 7. Strong Enough take #2, 8. Strong Enough take #3, 9. Gold Dust Woman, 10. My Favorite Mistake, 11. Mississippi.

Disc Two: 1. If It Makes You Happy take #1, 2. If It Makes You Happy take #2, 3. Happy, 4. Sweet Little Rock ‘n Roller, 5. The Difficult Kind, 6. White Room, 7. Little Wing, 8. There Goes The Neighborhood take #1, 9. There Goes The Neighborhood take #2, 10. Tombstone Blues take #1, 11. Tombstone Blues take #2.

Disc Three: 1. Introduction, 2. A Change Would Do You Good (A Change on cover), 3. Anything But Down, 4. Can’t Cry Anymore, 5. Leaving Las Vegas, 6. It Don’t Hurt, 7. Introduction, 8. Angel, 9. Sweet Child O’ Mine, 10. Am I Getting Through.

Disc Four: 1. Introduction, 2. Everyday Is A Winding Road, 3. Strong Enough, 4. Gold Dust Woman, 5. My Favorite Mistake, 6. Mississippi, 7. If It Makes You Happy, 8. Happy, 9. The Difficult Kind, 10. White Room, 11. Little Wing, 12. There Goes The Neighborhood, 13. Tombstone Blues, 14. All I Wanna Do.  

This release presents the concert Sheryl Crow played at New York’s Central Park in September 1999 which came out officially (2 songs have been broadcasted by VH1: Happy and Tombstone Blues), however it does include the dress rehearsals that took place the day before; the latter surfaced awhile ago in a nice soundboard recording which made happy many collectors. There have been studio rehearsals at S.I.R. Studios in New York in early September, though. The basic band line up consisted of Sheryl Crow on guitars, bass, vocals and harmonica, Tim Smith on bass electric guitars and background vocals, Peter Stroud on guitars, Emily Robinson on guitar, Jim Bogios on drums, Ash Sood on tambourine, Martie Seidel on fiddle, Mike Rowe on keyboards, Matt Brubeck on bass and cello, Mary Rowell on acoustic guitar and violin. Among the guests noticeable are: Eric Clapton (White Room-Little Wing, Tombstone Blues), Keith Richards (Happy, Sweet Little Rock n Roller, Tombstone Blues) Stevie Nicks (Gold Dust Woman), Chrissie Hynde (If It Makes You Happy), Sarah McLachlan (Angel, The Difficult Kind) Dixie Chicks (Mississippi, Strong Enough).
Let’s start with the dress rehearsals for the album called Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live From Central Park. In the first 2 Discs here we can find almost the same songs played at the concert, but also some other ones that were not featured on the album like Angel (Sarah McLachlan) which opens the set with 4 takes, Mississippi, Little Wing and Sweet Little Rock ‘n Roller. It is possible to hear stagehands talking, tuning while other minor background noises have been deleted in this release; the overall sound is great and interesting are also some in between songs comments that reveal interesting bits. Disc Oner is entirely devoted to Sheryl Crow with her attempts to find the best live arrangement for her sogs. After two takes of Strong Enough with the Dixie Chicks enters Stevie Nicks for Gold Dust Woman, a Fleetwood Mac song from Rumours followed by My Favourite Mistake which was the first single from The Globe Session album, a song believed to have been written about Clapton, others think it could be about Jakob Dylan from the Wallflowers. Talking about Dylan Mississippi comes from Love and Theft, Bob s 2001 album, here played with the Dixie Chicks again. Disc Two opens with Sheryl Crow’s own hit from 1996 If It Makes You Happy with the help of Chrissie Hynde, then it is Keith Richards turn: “It’s only Rock n Roll-says Keith Richards at the end of Happy-now what should I do, go home?” “Chuck Berry” answers Sheryl Crow and after few verses sung by her, Keith re-starts Sweet Little Rock ‘n Roller. Cream’s White Room opens Eric Clapton’s set, soon followed by a nice version of Jimi Hendrix Little Wing. There Goes The Neighborhood is yet another song from the Globe Sessions album, on the studio take Bobby Keys played saxophone but he was not featured here. The last song, Dylan’s Tombstone Blues is the grand finale featuring all guests on stage together. Discs Three and Four present the whole concert which has 9 more tracks with regards to the Live From Central Park album that was released in early December 1999 reaching gold certification for over 480.000 copies sold.

This is a nice recording that popped up unexpectedly about 20 years later in a surprising good shape, great to have. Packaging is also great as per Empress Valley standards even if on front cover there is not Sheryl Crow, but 2 of her guests Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, Blood Brothers.