“He was going to record it, so they put it on hold so nobody else could. But he didn’t actually record it”: Sheryl Crow says Don Henley told her to stop giving her songs away after she wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never got released

Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow perform live together at the 2007 Crossroads festival, with Slowhand playing his signature Strat, Crow playing a Telecaster.

Sheryl Crow has revealed that Don Henley once told her to stop giving her songs away after she wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never got released.

Before Crow was a superstar solo artist she did all kinds of things. She was a session artist and sang backups with Michael Jackson, Neal Schon and Don Henley. And she wrote songs.