Saturday 23 August 2008

Sheryl Crow and Rock the Vote Team Up for Voter Registration Drive

Register Your Friends to Vote and Receive a Free Download of Sheryl Crow's
Critically Acclaimed A&M Records Album 'Detours'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- Sheryl Crow wants you and your
friends to ballot! Nine-time Grammy award winner and internationally
acclaimed singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow has teamed up with Rock the Vote to
get hoi polloi registered to VOTE! The "Sheryl Crow Voter Registration Drive"
kicks turned today. Current members of the Rock the Vote mailing lean will
have access to a dislodge download of her politically-charged song
"Gasoline". You can too log on to
hTTP://www.rockthevote.com/sherylwantsyoutovote to access the free
download. Additionally, the first 50,000 individuals that get three friends
to record to vote will drive a digital copy of her critically acclaimed A&M
Records album "Detours".

"I have been involved with Rock the Vote since its inception and proud
of the work they have done. There are such critical issues facing our
country, from high gas prices to climate change that we need to do more
then just register to vote, we need to get our friends registered too,"
aforementioned Sheryl Crow.

"We ar thrilled to partner with Sheryl Crow to record young voters,"
said Heather Smith, Executive Director, Rock the Vote. "Bringing together
music and politics is core to Rock the Vote's mission. Working with Sheryl,
we tin reach kO'd to her fans and encourage them to register and encourage
their friends, family and co-workers to do the same."

About Sheryl Crow: Since the release of her 1993 multi-platinum album
"Tuesday Night Music Club," Sheryl Crow has become one of the most
successful female singer/songwriters of her generation, having sold more
than 30 million records worldwide. On Detours, her most recent release, she
explores both personal and global issues, touching upon topics such as
relationships, adoption, breast cancer, the war in Iraq, the environment
and Hurricane Katrina. The aptly-named album deals with the things we
intend to do and the interruptions that send us on unexpected paths. In
addition to her medicine, Sheryl is a devoted advocate for many environmental,
health and humanitarian related to causes. Sheryl has been involved with Rock
the Vote for intimately 18 days, as a spokesperson, instrument panel member, and
activist, exploitation her voice and music to hit, inspire, and activate
millions of offspring Americans to have their voice heard in our democratic
march.

About Rock the Vote:

Rock the Vote's commission is to engage and build the political world power of
loretta Young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country. Rock
the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and
incite young people to register and vote in every election. And we give
loretta Young people the tools to identify, teach about, and take legal action on the
issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political
process. Rock the Vote is creative, effective, and controlled by nobody's
agendum but our own -- we tell it like it is and pridefulness ourselves on being a
trusted source for information on politics. We endow the 44 million edward Young
people in America world Health Organization want to step up, claim their voice in the political
process, and change the way politics is done. http://www.RockTheVote.com




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