Sheryl Crow on her final album: ‘I’m really at peace about it’

Twenty-five years after she won three Grammys — including Record of the Year (“All I Wanna Do”) and Best New Artist — for her debut LP, 1993’s “Tuesday Night Music Club,” Sheryl Crow is releasing her final studio album, “Threads,” on Friday.

“I’m kind of really at peace about it,” Crow tells The Post. “I have loved making albums. I grew up actually holding tangible [vinyl] albums and reading the album notes. I think that people get their music in so many different ways now, and they make their own playlists. They kind of cherry-pick songs off of albums, and they don’t necessarily listen to albums in the full state anymore.”

But the singer-songwriter behind hits such as “If It Makes You Happy,” “Everyday Is a Winding Road” and “Soak Up the Sun” is going out in style with “Threads,” an all-star set of collaborations with artists including Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson and Mavis Staples, as well as Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton and Gary Clark Jr. And it’s not like all she wants to do is have some fun — and take early retirement at 57.

“I think after this I’ll just make music as I see fit. When it comes, I’ll put it out,” says Crow, who will still do “all I know how to do” by releasing new music in single or EP form. “I just won’t wait for a whole [album] to be made before I put songs out.”

For Crow, though, “Threads” serves as a fitting final album by serving as “the summation of my entire career, from the time I was a kid till today.” The concept was inspired by a recording session with Kris Kristofferson, who appears on new track “Border Lord,” after the two had performed at the 40th anniversary of “Austin City Limits” in 2014.

“He’s been a dear friend for years and a monumental inspiration to me as a songwriter,” says Crow. “And I just wanted more of that. At this stage in my career, as we all get older and reflect on how many incredible experiences we’ve had recording with each other, I wanted to invite people to do that on a record. And I’d never done it before, so I just made some calls. And the more calls I made, and the more people that said yes, I realized it was gonna be a full record.

“The further I got into it, the more I realized, ‘Wow, this is really the history of my musical life and, to a certain extent, the history of my personal life.’ All of them are people who have inspired me and continue to inspire me…I feel like there are threads — the people inside me all the way through me to this [next] generation. So it’s a look backward and a look forward.”

It’s an eclectic affair, with Public Enemy’s Chuck D mixing in with Sting and Maren Morris, but it all fits together organically. “Every person on the record I have a real relationship with,” says Crow. “Andra Day’s really the only one that I don’t know that well…I know these people, and they have inspired me and have also been around for the high highs and the low lows in my life. It’s been a real project of love.”

Crow felt some special love covering the Rolling Stones’ “The Worst” with the songwriter Keith Richards himself. “In 1986, I was a young school teacher in St. Louis, and I went to see ‘Hail! Hail! Rock ’N’ Roll’ being taped in St. Louis. I was in the audience, and I’m watching Steve Jordan — who’s the drummer and the producer of this album — and Keith Richards, and never knew 30 years later I would be in New York City in Germano Studios working with Steve Jordan and Keith Richards.”

She also fan-girled about recording “Flying Blind” with James Taylor, recalling Sweet Baby James and “running up to the piano at my house and poring over ‘Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon,’ which for me was the James Taylor album that set my musical life in motion.”

When she wasn’t busy making “Threads,” Crow has been raising her two adopted sons: Wyatt, 12, and Levi, 9. “They’re great kids,” she says. “They both love being on the road, and that’s made life great. I know at a certain point, when girls take over, they’re not gonna be so happy to be on the road with their mom. But as for now, it’s pretty idyllic.”

Also giving her life more perspective is being a breast cancer survivor. “My health is great,” says Crow. “I’m 13 years out.”

And as she nears 60, it still makes her happy to rock out: “Heck yeah! This has just been the most joyful stretch of my life. And I feel more in touch with my young self than ever. There’s something extremely liberating about being my age and also accepting that. Nobody likes to see themselves age, nobody likes to see their faces change. But the amazing gift has been kind of in accepting that and embracing the fact that I’m still rocking.”

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