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Track List
01) God Bless This Mess
02) Shine Over Babylon
03) Love Is Free
04) Peace Be Upon Us
05) Gasoline
06) Out of Our Heads
07) Detours
08) Now That You're Gone
09) Drunk With the Thought of You
10) Diamond Ring
11) Motivation
12) Make It Go Away (Radiation Song)
13) Love Is All There Is
14) Lullaby for Wyatt
15) Rise Up
01) God Bless This Mess
02) Shine Over Babylon
03) Love Is Free
04) Peace Be Upon Us
05) Gasoline
06) Out of Our Heads
07) Detours
08) Now That You're Gone
09) Drunk With the Thought of You
10) Diamond Ring
11) Motivation
12) Make It Go Away (Radiation Song)
13) Love Is All There Is
14) Lullaby for Wyatt
15) Rise Up
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5:07
4:27
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3:51
2:38
4:10
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First Released
2008
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Happy
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Album
700,000 copies
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Detours is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in February 2008. The album marks Crow reunion with Bill Bottrell, who produced her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club and briefly worked with Crow on her 1996 album, Sheryl Crow. The album returned to Crow's forte in roots rock. The album sold over 700,000 copies worldwide up to 2010.
It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category for Best Pop Vocal Album on December 4, 2008.
User Album Review
Since Sheryl Crow released her last album, Wildflower, she's had a rough time. Not only did she suffer a much publicised break-up with Lance Armstrong shortly after the couple got engaged, she's also fought off early stage breast cancer. The spirit that she's needed to survive such trials is writ large through Detours, her sixth studio album; a collection of tunes which, as you'd expect from an activist like Sheryl, doesn't wallow in her personal life, but chooses instead to investigate the wider world. Never one to shy away from the big issues, Crow has stated that these songs cover topics from the environment to the floods of New Orleans, though interestingly, the main thrust does not seem to be her increasingly political voice but an investigation of religion.
Maybe it's that brush with a potentially terminal illness or just a realisation that modern politics has as much to do with piety as it does policies, but from the opening pair of God Bless This Mess and Shine Over Babylon, to the ''children of Abraham'' in the chorus of Out Of Our Heads - a song which even without the reference would sound like John Lennon fronting the Salvation Army – and the inclusion of Islamic greetings in Peace Be Upon Us, there is an inescapable stream of spirituality and religious imagery that flows through the proceedings.
Thankfully, it doesn't get overly preachy, thanks to the few inclusions that do face her personal demons; Now That You're Gone is a strong redemption-from-love song and Love Is All There Is deals with loss in a suitably mature way. Not that she's above smashing a few plates, as the bitter couplet of ''Diamonds may be sweet/but to me they just bring on cold feet'' of Diamond Ring shows.
If Detours can be summed up in a single word, it is measured. With what Sheryl has been through recently, you could have forgiven an album that spoke of meltdowns and which castigated and caterwauled.
What she's actually provided is something grown-up, intellectual and toe-tapping, showing that after 15 years of solo work, she can still be every bit as vibrant and vital as her debut, Tuesday Night Music Club. Detours might not just the sound of an artist returning to her finest form, it could also be the sound of a career being reborn.
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Detours is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in February 2008. The album marks Crow reunion with Bill Bottrell, who produced her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club and briefly worked with Crow on her 1996 album, Sheryl Crow. The album returned to Crow's forte in roots rock. The album sold over 700,000 copies worldwide up to 2010.
It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category for Best Pop Vocal Album on December 4, 2008.
User Album Review
Since Sheryl Crow released her last album, Wildflower, she's had a rough time. Not only did she suffer a much publicised break-up with Lance Armstrong shortly after the couple got engaged, she's also fought off early stage breast cancer. The spirit that she's needed to survive such trials is writ large through Detours, her sixth studio album; a collection of tunes which, as you'd expect from an activist like Sheryl, doesn't wallow in her personal life, but chooses instead to investigate the wider world. Never one to shy away from the big issues, Crow has stated that these songs cover topics from the environment to the floods of New Orleans, though interestingly, the main thrust does not seem to be her increasingly political voice but an investigation of religion.
Maybe it's that brush with a potentially terminal illness or just a realisation that modern politics has as much to do with piety as it does policies, but from the opening pair of God Bless This Mess and Shine Over Babylon, to the ''children of Abraham'' in the chorus of Out Of Our Heads - a song which even without the reference would sound like John Lennon fronting the Salvation Army – and the inclusion of Islamic greetings in Peace Be Upon Us, there is an inescapable stream of spirituality and religious imagery that flows through the proceedings.
Thankfully, it doesn't get overly preachy, thanks to the few inclusions that do face her personal demons; Now That You're Gone is a strong redemption-from-love song and Love Is All There Is deals with loss in a suitably mature way. Not that she's above smashing a few plates, as the bitter couplet of ''Diamonds may be sweet/but to me they just bring on cold feet'' of Diamond Ring shows.
If Detours can be summed up in a single word, it is measured. With what Sheryl has been through recently, you could have forgiven an album that spoke of meltdowns and which castigated and caterwauled.
What she's actually provided is something grown-up, intellectual and toe-tapping, showing that after 15 years of solo work, she can still be every bit as vibrant and vital as her debut, Tuesday Night Music Club. Detours might not just the sound of an artist returning to her finest form, it could also be the sound of a career being reborn.
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