Sheryl Crow - Detours
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Free Music Review: Boring
Hit: 2 Stars
Like most artist Sheryl Crow has grown mellow with age. Unfortunately she also got boring on this offering as well. All the songs pretty much sound the same (Same tempo, feel, style & context)
She has a beautiful voice, but that can't save these songs from sounding like demos. There is really nothing special about this CD.
Free Music Review: Sheryl, Always the best!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, since I heard Sheryl I falling in love. Her performance is simply the best. I think she will not ever create a bad song!! Go and get it your album...Free Music Review: Fine Varied Album!
Hit: 4 Stars
I quite liked Sheryl Crow's previous album "Wildflower" when it was released, but unlike her classic albums "The Globe Sessions" and "Sheryl Crow" ( to a certain extent also the underrated "C'mon C'mon" ) it soon ended on the shelf and has rarely been brought forward since then. It's not that it was not a good album, it probably just was not that interesting, and perhaps "Always on Your Side" is the only really memorable song on it.
I'm still not quite sure how it will be with "Detours", though I have a strong feeling that the album through more inspired songwriting at least will be able to compared with her debut album and "C'mon C'mon".
Musically it is a varied album and lyrically Crow is dealing with personal as well as important political issues.
The quiet acoustic opening song "God Bless This Mess" has a straightforward approach to it, which somehow reminds me of Bruce Springstein. It has become a favourite of mine, and I imagine it could be song well suited for campfire singing.
Quite a shock when the album continues with the heavy single "Shine Over Babylon" - also one of the best tracks in the vein of the "Globe Sessions" material.
"Love is Free" and an acoustic sing-along track which I foresee that I'll often skip over in the future. Fine vocal break towards the end, though.
"Peace Be Upon Us" is another catchy classic Crow song, featuring a female guest vocalist singing in Arabic - a great track.
"Gasoline" is more cool classic Crow - a song that would fit Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones perfectly - they really ought to cover it.
I don't think I would have guessed "Out of Our Heads" was Sheryl Crow had it not been on this album. She sounds very diffently on this track, which is another catchy hippie-type sing-along song. Sounding very British with George Harrison-influenced guitar-lines.
The quiet title track is another favourite. Nice country type song, somehow reminding me of another favourite female songwriter, Suzanne Vega.
"Now That You're Gone" is a solid soulful bluesy song.
The waltzy "Drunk With the Thought of You" is on of my least favourite songs on the album; musically not very interesting.
"Diamond Ring" is better - heavy but very slow - has a nice chorus, though.
"Motivation" I guess I would rate alongside "Drunk With the Thought of You" as musically not very interesting.
Fortunately the next songs are much stronger. "Make it Go Away", dealing with the grave subject of cancer is musically quite different from Crow's usual style and she sings the song with great conviction.
"Love is All There" is another catchy tune and an obvious choice for a single. Great optimistic Travelling Wilburys arrangement.
"Lullaby For Wyatt" is what the title says, a quiet lullaby written for her son Wyatt.
So with at least a handful of new really great Sheryl Crow songs the album should be able to please most of her fans; vocally she is as strong as ever.
Free Music Review: Vintage Crow
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl Crow is back and sounding better than ever. Those of you that may have given up on her the past few years, don't miss this album!! She reminds us again why she is hands down the greatest female rock artist of all time.Free Music Review: Sheryl's Personal And Political Detour
Hit: 5 Stars
For the fourteen years she has been a power on the music scene, one has always suspected that there was more to Sheryl Crow than just wanting to have some fun or soak up the sun, and such. Though she is of our time, Sheryl also takes a great deal of inspiration from the socially-conscious singer/songwriter world of the 1960s and 1970s. Thus, we come to DETOURS, her newest offering.
Not only is DETOURS a socially-conscious piece from Sheryl, it is also a very autobiographical one, dealing with her recent victory over breast cancer ("Make It Go Away [Radiation Song]") and becoming an adoptive mother ("Lullaby For Wyatt"). There's also the roots-rocker we know and love about her in "Diamond Ring", which has the feel of a classic Emmylou Harris record.
But without a doubt, this is a no-holes-barred political piece through and through. Many of the songs on here were the result of her political activism of the last couple of years, and this included a much-publicized confrontation with Bush brain Karl Rove that clearly (and understandably) left a very bad taste in her mouth (detailed in the scathing "Now That You're Gone"). Much like John Lennon, Sheryl also envisions a Utopian vision of America in songs like "Love Is Free" and "Love Is All There Is." Of course, such a Utopia may be next to impossible to achieve, but to give up on it because of the difficulty would be a travesty.
Of course, Sheryl will be attacked for injecting her personal political views into her music by those on the far-right, those of the "Shut Up And Sing" persuasion who tried to destroy the Dixie Chicks. But it's clear that she will not be deterred. Or "Detoured", as the case may be. For the sheer bravery she displayed in making this album at the height of the most politically charged era in America since the 1970s, DETOURS is already in the running for being one of the best albums of 2008.