Sheryl Crow - Detours
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Free Music Review: great return for Ms. Crow
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl Crow's latest effort, Detours, is a return to everything I love about her as an artist. She lost me a little with Wildflower (which I enjoy - just not as much as other records), but she's back in top-notch form with Detours.
Dealing with relationships gone sour, life-changing health issues, the adoption of a new child, the current state of the world/politics, Sheryl unleashes a wide-range of songs in both theme and sound - there's even one song with a middle-eastern flair!
Highlights for me so far: Gasoline (an awesome song that reminds me of her second, self-titled record), Make it Go Away, Shine over Babylon, Love is Free, God Bless this Mess, and Diamond Ring.
Free Music Review: Great Songwriting
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl has come back to her roots on this album and with an outstanding array of songs. I really love the different vibes of this album. "God Bless This Mess", "Love is Free", and "Gasoline" are some of my favorites. Free Music Review: Our Detours
Hit: 5 Stars
In "Detours," Sheryl Crow has created a long and deliberate exercise attempting to, and regularly being unable to, exorcise her angers. She sings because the sources of her angers remain beyond her ability to change them. This is a common theme in Sheryl's artistry. Her albums and songs have often dealt with angers and frustrations.
The album is about detours we make as a group and a culture, and it is about detours we individually make out of the mainstream. I've listened to the album over 30 times now, and this morning I finally felt in a place to make some review comments about it.
"God Bless This Mess" is a song she sings with single guitar accompaniment and a low-fi soundscape. Like "Shine Over Babylon," it is a lament against the war, against a loss of America's moral values, and a loss of national common sense & direction.
Sheryl uses Middle-Eastern instruments, language, melodies, and rhythms in "Peace Be Upon Us" to call for people to fight for peace.
In "Gasoline," Sheryl makes a riotous and populist clamour against the growing costs of oil. She is so angry at the political forces that shape our vehicles to be primarily single-energy-sourced. Her song is a warning against further violence that will grow in the U.S. and the rest of the world if the U.S. does not create and enforce more diverse energy policies.
"Out of Our Heads" is a call for everyone to rethink our assumptions that lead us to violence.
"Detours" is my favorite song on the album. I love it so much, and it is so beautiful I choose not to comment further about it.
Sheryl Crow was asked in an interview if "Now That You're Gone" was about Lance Armstrong, and her reply was that it was not specifically about him, but rather probably more about several of her past relationships and the common feelings we have in retrospect.
"Drunk With the Thought of You" is about the cocktail of memories, emotions, and hopes that intoxicate us about those we love. Great song.
"Diamond Ring" is a tough song. It is an unsubtle and angry song about the problems that marriage and sexual-exclusivity contracts create for many people. On this album, Sheryl uses most of the major four letter swear words that still can't be said on U.S. network television, but she saves the F-bomb for this song.
"Motivation" is a song mocking young white girl culture.
"Make It Go Away" is a dark song. I have trouble listening to it. Too close to home.
"Lullaby for Wyatt" is a lovely song. Wyatt is the name of her adopted son. If we love our children in the best ways we have been taught love and understand love, Sheryl makes it clear how well she loves her son.
About her versions of Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes" or The Beatles "Here Comes The Sun," I'll only say I can completely and consistently understand her reasons for selecting them lyrically & philosophically, but I don't understand some of her rhythmic, instrument, and arrangement choices.
Many social & political conservatives may not initially like this album. In this album, Sheryl is clearly dealing with so many outstanding & longstanding sources of anger, and she does not hide her feelings, ideas, and objections. While she tries to shine a light of hope, and she tries to suggest ways out of "this mess," most informed people listening to these songs will feel the weight of our entrenched burdens she is frankly discussing.
Sheryl fans looking to just "soak up the sun" or to "just have some fun" may get a little queasy on this latest roller-coaster ride Sheryl is showing us we are all already on.
Free Music Review: Awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl Crow rocks. I don't agree with her politics but she can sing about them to me anytime. The song "Detours" made me cry. Her voice has matured and sounds better than ever on this album.Free Music Review: Sheryl's Back
Hit: 5 Stars
After a few lackluster efforts, Sheryl Crow has released a CD you can sink your teeth into. Starting with her just playing her acoustic on the opening "God Bless This Mess" gets your attention. She is teamed up with one of the producers of the smash "Tuesday Night Music Club" and it shows. Only problem is, one of the songs is a rip-off of "All I Wanna Do." Overall, this is a great CD and I had forgotten how much I enjoy a good Sheryl Crow CD