In this 1998 broadcast of The Dini Petty Show, Sheryl Crow performs “My Favorite Mistake” live in the Toronto studio — the lead single from The Globe Sessions, and the song everyone spent that year trying to decode. She opened her return visit to the show with it, which makes this the first thing the audience heard from an album she had nearly shelved for being too honest.
The guessing game around the lyric became part of the record’s life, and Crow never settled it. To this day she has never said who the song is about, only that the guessing was the point. That leaves the performance to carry the meaning, which is more or less what she intended.
Played for a studio audience rather than an arena, the song sits closer to the way it was written: the verses conversational, the chorus arriving without any of the staging a bigger room would demand. The Globe Sessions went on to win the 1999 Grammy for Best Rock Album, and this is its lead single played while it was still new enough that nobody in the room had formed an opinion about who it was for. That is the rarest thing about the tape: the song exists here only as a song, before the speculation attached itself permanently to everything about it.
Unseen since its original 1998 broadcast, this master tape has been meticulously optimized and preserved via the official archive of The Dini Petty Show, safeguarding an early televised performance of one of Crow’s most-discussed songs.
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