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"Can't Cry Anymore" - Sheryl Crow
from the album Tuesday Night Music Club (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #36 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's song of the day comes from pop singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, whose Grammy Award-winning debut album Tuesday Night Music Club had scored a pair of top ten pop hits with "All I Want To Do" and "Strong Enough", the latter peaking in the spring of 1995. The sixth single releaed from the record (three songs missed the top-40 before her "All I Want To Do" breakthrough) was the midtempo jangle-pop of "Can't Cry Anymore". Written by Crow with producer Bill Bottrell, the track finds Crow leaving a relationship pretty joyfully, but takes a turn about a "brother's" heroin problem...

"Can't Cry Anymore" became the third and final top-40 pop hit in America from her debut album in August of 1995. The song climbed to #22 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, while topping out at #38 on their Alternative Rock format list. Internationally, the single climbed all the way to #3 in Canada, and reached the top-40 in the UK at #33 (it just missed the top-40 in Australia at #41). Because of the popularity and critical recognition of the album, her second single "Run Baby Run" was re-released, and while it got no significant attention in the States, over in Britain the song went to #24, followed by a redo of her first single, "What I Can Do For You", which almost made the British top-40 at #43.

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Here's Sheryl on MTV (with Kennedy pre-psycho) performing the song acoustically in 1994...