KID ROCK Forced To Replace SHERYL CROW On Next Single

September 13, 2002

KID ROCK's track "Picture", the next single from his current album, Cocky, will reportedly be released without the vocals of Sheryl Crow, who duets with him on the album version.

According to reports, Interscope, Crow's label, has denied permission for Rock to use her vocals for the single, which he says was not necessarily a surprise: "Good old politics — heads of record companies and all that bullshit, and, you know, people having albums out, and singles rights, and worried about if it's gonna stop the sales of maybe Sheryl's record, you know, if this thing takes off, people buying my record. It's all a bunch of bullshit. You can't just make music and put it out. And, you know, the same goes to say for, you know, my label (Lava) — you know, [head of Lava] Jason Flom never lets people use his artists. He's always, 'No, no, no, no,' so, you know, it comes time for someone else, you know, everyone goes, 'Fuck him. He doesn't let anybody else get down, so why should we let him?'"

A possibility exists that country singer Allison Moorer's recently recorded version of Crow's vocal part from "Picture" will be used on the single instead. Moorer, Rock said, was recommended by an executive at Country Music Television (CMT): "We were looking for somebody, you know, maybe a crossover-type thing, with still, you know, some country flair to it so we could ride it both, you know, pop, country, wherever it might fit, maybe even do a rock mix on it. And she said that everyone was really pulling for her, and I had never really heard of her that much, but I went and bought her records, and she does have some really good stuff. We just sent it to her, you know, it was pretty self-explanatory, like, 'Hey, lay a vocal on here and see what you got.'"

Moorer will join Rock to perform "Picture" at Farm Aid on September 21st at the Post-Gazette Pavilion At Star Lake in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.

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