"Strong Enough" is a song by Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

 from the album Tuesday Night Music Club

Tuesday Night Music Club

Tuesday Night Music Club is the debut album from American singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on August 3, 1993. The lead single "Run, Baby, Run" was not particularly successful...

. The song reached #5 on the March 25, 1995 Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot 100 chart. Crow performed the song on her live album Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park alongside the Dixie Chicks

Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...

.

The song

"Strong Enough" is a short acoustic song. In live performances Crow often plays the accordion to it, although this instrument was not featured on the original recording.

Travis Tritt

Travis Tritt

James Travis Tritt is an American country music singer from Marietta, Georgia. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In the 2000s, he released two albums on Columbia Records and one for the defunct...

 wrote and released an answer song

Answer song

An answer song is, as the name suggests, a song made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist. It is also known as a response song. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s through 1950s...

 called "Strong Enough to Be Your Man" in 2002.

Canadian Idol

Canadian Idol

Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...

 alum Tara Oram

Tara Oram

Tara Oram is a Canadian country music recording artist and a top six finalist on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. In March 2009 Oram received an ECMA for Country Recording of the Year Award.-Early life:Oram was born in Gander, Newfoundland but moved frequently during her early years...

 covered the track on her second studio album, Revival

Revival (Tara Oram album)

-Charts:...

, in 2011.

The video

A simple black-and-white video was directed by Martin Bell. It features Crow in a largely empty room alternatively singing the song into a microphone and pacing anxiously through the room.

Track listing

US CD single (cat. no. 580-866-2)

1. "Strong Enough" - LP Version
2. "All I Wanna Do
   All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow song)
   English singer/songwriter Amy Studt released a cover version of the song as her fourth single. Amy was asked personally by Sheryl Crow to record a cover of the song....
   
   " - Live
3. "Reach Around Jerk" - Live
4. "Leaving Las Vegas
   Leaving Las Vegas (song)
   "Leaving Las Vegas" is a rock song by Sheryl Crow that appears on her debut album Tuesday Night Music Club, and was Crow's first single in the U.S.Sheryl Crow performed the song on her live album Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park....
   
   " - Live

EU cd single (cat. no. 580-883-2)

1. "Strong Enough" - LP Version
2. "All I Wanna Do" - Live in Nashville
3. "Reach Around Jerk" - Live at the Borderline
4. "Leaving Las Vegas" - Acoustic Live for Virgin Radio UK

UK cd single #1 (cat. no. 580-919-2)

1. "Strong Enough"
2. "No One Said It Would Be Easy"
3. "All I Wanna Do" - Live in Nashville

UK cd single #2 (cat. no. 580-921-2)

1. "Strong Enough"
2. "All By Myself
   All by Myself
   "All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975.The verse is based on the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18...
   
   "
3. "Strong Enough" - Live at the Borderline
4. "Reach Around Jerk"

Charts

End of year chart (1995)	Position
Australian ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... Singles Chart	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	30