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This is how a live album should sound--full of irony, crackling energy, and stellar guest pairings. Those who looked askance when Sheryl Crow--never a girl's girl--joined Lilith Fair for 1999 may develop a different perspective after hearing Central Park. After all, Lilith allowed Crow to share mascara wands and bond with Chrissie Hynde, the Dixie Chicks, and Sarah McLachlan, and they all dropped in for her concert at Central Park. Hynde makes "If It Makes You Happy" into the ultimate bad-girl song, and when Stevie Nicks takes over on "Gold Dust Woman," you can almost feel the wind whipping through her witchy hair. But while Dixie Chick Martie Seidel's fiddle gives "Strong Enough" an authentic country feel, Natalie Maines's leaden vocal drags the scathing feminist tract down to a greeting-card level. And a grizzled-sounding Eric Clapton serves up the Cream's "White Room." Crow is in peak form throughout the 14 songs, exposing herself as a rocker in sheep's clothing who's more than up to the task of taking on the Mick Jagger role in an edgy version of the Stones' "Happy," with Keith Richards as her sidekick. --Jaan Uhelszki

1. Everyday Is a Winding Road

2. My Favorite Mistake

3. Leaving las Vegas

4. Strong Enough - (with Dixie Chicks)

5. It Don't Hurt

6. Change Would Do You Good

7. Gold Dust Woman - (with Stevie Nicks)

8. If It Makes You Happy - (with Chrissie Hynde)

9. All I Wanna Do

10. Happy - (with Keith Richards/Chrissie Hynde)

11. Difficult Kind, The - (with Sarah McLachlan)

12. White Room - (with Eric Clapton)

13. There Goes the Neighborhood

14. Tombstone Blues - (with Dixie Chicks/Chrissie Hynde/Sarah McLachlan/Eric Clapton/Keith Richards/Stevie Nicks)