Song · Sheryl Crow
“A Change Would Do You Good” by Sheryl Crow
From the album Sheryl Crow (1996)
“A Change Would Do You Good” by Sheryl Crow appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1997 and 2021. It was first released in 1996 on the album Sheryl Crow. Its best result is #77 on the Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #263 alternative song of 1997.
For "A Change Would Do You Good", the fourth single lifted from her self-titled 1996 album, Sheryl Crow and her co-writers Jeff Trott and Brian MacLeod went digging through classic soul, with the Staple Singers and Mavis Staples as their guiding lights. They wrote it during a six-month stay in New Orleans, and by Trott's telling they piled up so many lyric scraps that they started pulling lines out of a hat and pairing the ones that belonged together.
That explains the glorious scatter of the words: a string of non sequiturs that adds up to a nudge to shake up your life. Crow produced it, plays Hammond organ and shares bass duty with Davey Faragher; Trott plays acoustic guitar, Todd Wolfe electric and MacLeod sampler, and Tchad Blake mixed. It went on to rule Billboard's Triple-A chart for six weeks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 78 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 | 103 |
| 1997 | 77 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 582 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
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