A famous country singer who has been a driving force behind the gun control movement in Tennessee said that fleeing New York and Los Angeles and moving to the Volunteer State saved her life.
“I completely relate to Nashville because I have a lot of friends there who are also in the music business,” Sheryl Crow told Rolling Stone in 2003. “But not only that, I just relate to the people. I relate to the friendliness and down-homeness. I feel a relaxation that comes over my body that I usually don’t feel when I’m in New York or L.A.”
At a show in New Jersey on Saturday, Crow (pictured above) said moving to Tennessee “saved [her] life:”
“I’ll tell you a quick story. So I know how hard it is for especially young people—and I don’t know if anybody was pained by struggles like I did when I was young—but these are some tricky waters to navigate now. I’ll just tell you that, for me, getting out in nature really saved my life. So, I moved to Nashville and I bought a farm. I sat in the trees and just asked God to give me some answers—and I wound up writing this song.”
But Crow has recently been involved in trying to change Tennessee’s politics to make the state more like New York or California, the states from which she fled.
She was a loud voice for the gun control movement during the state’s recent push for gun control.
“We’re Nashvillians. We’re also moms,” Crow told News Channel 5 in April. “And I think what happened at Covenant has touched everyone, including Gov. Lee on a very deep and personal level. We just want to see something that we can all agree on.”
In the heat of the battle over red flag laws, which were not implemented during the August special session of the legislature, Crow joined a new Volunteer State gun control group called “Voices for a Safer Tennessee.”
“Voices for a Safer Tennessee is a nonpartisan statewide coalition dedicated to prioritizing gun safety and advocating for common sense gun laws to make communities across Tennessee safer for all of us,” according to that organization’s website. “If you believe our children deserve a safer Tennessee, then we are on the same side.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on X / Twitter.
Photo “Sheryl Crow” by Sheryl Crow.
