Sheryl Crow’s love of country and songs that need little more than the strum of a steel-stringed guitar has always been there, even as her glossier pop-rock anthems have soundtracked the last three decades. Pick You Up, her 13th studio album, feels like the happy marriage of her Americana-embracing tendencies and the Tuesday Night Music Club hits that launched her career—but with a little more bite. “I’ve Got Your Number” is a direct descendent of “Can’t Cry Anymore” and “Soak Up the Sun” with its warm melody and wide-open vocals, while “Pick You Up” strikes the same chords as her repertoire and feels right at home on a honky-tonk jukebox. Lyrically, Crow explores her existential dread and concern for the future, whether regarding the fate of the environment (“Flat Earth”), a crisis of faith (“Heaven Help Us”), or venomous political discourse (“Freedom Bus,” which features folk-rock favorite Jesse Welles). It’s a tight seven songs, but Pick You Up packs a punch: Crow’s writing what she knows, but more importantly, she’s playing what she loves.