Kid Rock – Picture feat. Sheryl Crow

“Picture” is a duet written by American music artists Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, released on November 12, 2002, as the fourth single and ninth track from Kid Rock’s 2001 album Cocky.

Kid Rock wrote this song, which finds him discovering a picture of his ex and asking her to come back to him. Rock proudly indulged his desires with the many groupies available to him, but this song shows his sensitive side, as he’s feeling unfulfilled. When Sheryl Crow comes in for the duet, she explains why she left: He was cheating on her. There rumors that Rock and Crow were dating in real life, but they both denied it.

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Kid Rock - Picture feat. Sheryl Crow

Kid Rock - Picture feat. Sheryl Crow (Official Music Video)05:02

Sheryl Crow’s contribution was almost kiboshed over a dispute between her label, A&M, and Rock’s label, Atlantic. Rock ended up recording a version with Allison Moorer that was released as a single, but the version on the album featured Crow, and she’s also in the music video. Some radio stations played the official single with Moorer, but most played the version with Crow because she was a bigger name. When the song charted, Billboard faced a conundrum because it wasn’t clear who should be credited with Rock. They ended up listing the artist as “Kid Rock featuring Allison Moorer or Sheryl Crow.”

Crow also played bass and 12-string guitar on the track, which has been the #3 single on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the past two weeks.

Kid Rock and Crow are all smiles in the JB Carlin-directed clip, which has the pair recording in the studio and strolling around outside Rock’s home in Clarkston, Michigan. According to VH1’s Pop Up Video, Rock’s then-fiancee Pam Anderson didn’t like the idea of her guy hanging out with his ex and held up production with a two-hour phone call to Rock.

Kid Rock was one of the last people you would expect to land an easy-listening pop hit. His image was (and still is) raw and redneck, very aggressive with elements of rap. His previous releases made little effort to appeal to anyone outside his fanbase; before “Picture,” his previous single was “You Never Met A Motherf–ker Quite Like Me.”

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