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Released | February 5, 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2007 The Hit Farm in Nashville, Odditorium Recorders in California, Sage and Sound Studios in Hollywood, Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, The Pass Studios in Los Angeles, and 2 Seas Records in Bahrain | |||
Genre | Rock, pop rock, folk rock | |||
Length | 52:55 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Bill Bottrell | |||
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Singles from Detours | ||||
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Detours is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on February 5, 2008. A return to Crow's forte in roots rock, the album also marks her reunion with Bill Bottrell, who produced her 1993 debut Tuesday Night Music Club and briefly worked on her 1996 album Sheryl Crow. The album sold over 700,000 copies worldwide up to 2010. [1]
It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album on December 4, 2008. [2]
Detours was recorded at Crow's Nashville farm and includes 14 of the 24 songs recorded. The first single is a folk-rock anthem, 'Shine over Babylon'. Crow told Billboard in summer 2007 that the song 'is very environmentally conscious, in the tradition of Bob Dylan'. The single ended up being a radio airplay release and reached #42 on the Italy Singles Chart and #4 on the BillboardAdult album alternative chart.
“ | I'm really encouraging artists to write about what's going on, because we seem to be very distracted by some lightweight topics. I think it's time to start writing about the reality of what's around us. | ” |
In additional comments on her website, Crow describes the single as 'in every way a desperate cry for understanding. Perhaps it is even a battle song in the face of fear.'
In a statement, Crow described the record as 'the most honest record I've ever made. It's about being forced to wake up'[3].
The second single was 'Love Is Free' which, in Crow's own words, was 'inspired by [the effect of Hurricane Katrina on] New Orleans. What struck me about it is the stoicism of the New Orleans people, they are very spiritually based. You can see it in their eyes that they aren't going to give up, they are going to rebuild.'So far 'Love Is Free' has gained much airplay in the States and has already begun to enter the Billboard charts: the U.S. Hot 100 (#77), the Canadian Hot 100 (#53) and the Japanese Hot 100 (#10).
Perhaps coincidentally, while the New Orleans-inspired single was distributed and its allusions were noted by Crow during appearances on American television, the album itself was released on the day of New Orleans Mardi Gras.
The singles 'Now that You're Gone' (released only in Europe) and 'Out of Our Heads' charted #19 and #17, respectively, on the Ukrainian FDR charts. 'Motivation' was released as a radio single only and peaked at #14 on the Billboard Triple A chart in the US. The title track, 'Detours', charted at #13 in the US after Crow performed it on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Artistdirect | [5] |
Billboard | (favorable)[6] |
Blender | [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[8] |
Los Angeles Times | [9] |
PopMatters | (8/10)[10] |
Rolling Stone | [11] |
Slant Magazine | [12] |
USA Today | [13] |
Detours scored a 75 on the website Metacritic, indicating 'generally favorable' reviews.[14]
All lyrics and music by Sheryl Crow, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'God Bless This Mess' | 2:09 |
2. | 'Shine over Babylon' (lyrics: Crow, Bill Bottrell, music: Crow, Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, Eric Schermerhorn) | 4:03 |
3. | 'Love Is Free' (lyrics and music: Crow, Bottrell) | 3:23 |
4. | 'Peace Be Upon Us' (featuring Ahmed Al Hirmi) (music: Crow, Mike Elizondo, Bottrell, Jeff Trott) | 4:22 |
5. | 'Gasoline' (featuring Ben Harper) (music: Crow, Bottrell, Trott) | 5:07 |
6. | 'Out of Our Heads' (lyrics: Crow, Bottrell, music: Bottrell) | 4:28 |
7. | 'Detours' | 3:29 |
8. | 'Now That You're Gone' | 3:51 |
9. | 'Drunk with the Thought of You' | 2:39 |
10. | 'Diamond Ring' (music: Crow, Trott) | 4:10 |
11. | 'Motivation' (lyrics and music: Crow, Bottrell) | 3:47 |
12. | 'Make It Go Away (Radiation Song)' | 3:24 |
13. | 'Love Is All There Is' (music: Crow, Elizondo, Trott) | 4:01 |
14. | 'Lullaby for Wyatt' | 4:09 |
Total length: | 52:55 |
UK bonus tracks | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
15. | 'Rise Up' | Crow, Bottrell | 4:08 |
16. | 'Here Comes the Sun' (iTunes bonus track) | George Harrison | 3:00 |
US iTunes bonus tracks | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
15. | 'Doctor My Eyes' | Jackson Browne | 3:28 |
16. | 'Here Comes the Sun' (Pre-order only) | Harrison | 3:00 |
Japanese bonus tracks | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
15. | 'Rise Up' (lyrics and music: Crow, Bottrell) | 4:08 |
16. | 'Beautiful Dream' | 3:36 |
Japanese Tour Edition bonus tracks | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
15. | 'Rise Up' (lyrics and music: Crow, Bottrell) | 4:08 |
16. | 'Beautiful Dream' | 3:36 |
17. | 'Shine over Babylon' (Live Acoustic version) | 4:04 |
18. | 'Detours' (Live Acoustic version) | 3:41 |
19. | 'Drunk with the Thought of You' (Live Acoustic version) | 2:45 |
20. | 'Love Is Free' (Live Acoustic version) | 3:26 |
Japanese Tour Edition bonus DVD | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'God Bless This Mess' (Music video) | |
2. | 'Gasoline' (Music video) | |
3. | 'Love Is Free' (Music video) | |
4. | 'Shine over Babylon' (Music video) | |
5. | 'Out of Our Heads' (Music video) |
Detours debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 92,000 copies in its first week and an additional 52,000 copies in its second week.[15] As of May 26, 2010, the album had sold 405,000 copies in the US.[16]
Region | Date | Label | Catalog | Sales | Rank |
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Japan | January 30, 2008 | Universal | UICA-1044 | 28,518[17] | 22 |
United States | February 5, 2008 | A&M | – | 405,000 | 2 |
United Kingdom | February 18, 2008 | Interscope | – | 25,000 | 20 |
Canada | February 5, 2008 | A&M | – | 50,000 | 2 |
Ireland | February 18, 2008 | Interscope | – | 28 |
Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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Top Alternative Albums | 22 |
Top Comprehensive Albums | 125 |
Billboard 200 | 114 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada)[18] | Gold | 50,000^ |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
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(help)Nothing puts life in perspective like a brush with death, and that truism is brought into blazing relief on Sheryl Crow's sixth album, Detours. Crow survived a battle with breast cancer in February 2006. Around that same time, she separated from fiancé Lance Armstrong and, roughly a year later, she adopted a son. That's a decade's worth of life packed into two years, but these highs and lows -- or Detours as she calls them -- have led Crow to produce her liveliest, weirdest album since 1996's messy masterpiece Sheryl Crow. On that record, Crow shook up her success by undercutting the retro-rock of Tuesday Night Music Club with loping looped beats and a skewed lyricism that kept even bright tunes like 'A Change Will Do You Good' slightly off-kilter, but ever since that album her records grew increasingly mannered, as she whittled away her eccentricities. All those eccentricities return on Detours, partially due to that tidal wave of life events, but also to the revival of her relationship with producer Bill Bottrell, the man who helmed Tuesday Night Music Club. Bottrell and Crow had an acrimonious split during the making of the second album -- several of their collaborations did make that record, including 'Maybe Angels' and 'Hard to Make a Stand' -- and while Sheryl sustained her stardom, no producer let her be as loose or revealing as Bottrell, as he helped give her pop tunes odd, distinguishing touches and kept her ballads spare and haunting. These gifts are put into sharp relief on Detours -- perhaps a shade too sharp, actually, as the album is divided into a half of careening protest pop and a half of moody introspection, which may showcase how Bottrell captures Crow's distinct moods, but doesn't quite give this album the classicist flow of her first records. Even if the album slows down a bit too much on its second stretch -- the one containing unadorned confessionals of broken engagements ('Diamond Ring'), cancer ('Make It Go Away [Radiation Song]'), and adoption ('Lullaby for Wyatt') -- the individual moments all work according to their own merits, while that first half contains Crow's most compelling music in years. Much of this is explicitly political -- references to war, petroleum, and New Orleans all run rampant -- but compared to her sometimes didactic public speeches, her socially conscious writing is surprising, filled with odd juxtapositions and sly jokes. That sense of humor alone is a relief, but it's married to music that's restless, encompassing the worldbeat textures of 'Peace Be Upon Us' (featuring Ahmed Al Himi on backing vocals), the lopsided shuffle of 'Love Is Free,' and the sultry '70s Stones swagger of 'Gasoline.' Crow hasn't been this free or fine since Sheryl Crow, but there is an emotional directness on Detours that makes this a progression, not a retreat, and with any luck, this album isn't a one-time journey down a side road but rather the touchstone for the next act in her career.
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2 | 04:02 | |||
3 | 03:22 | |||
4 | feat: Ahmed AlHirmi | 04:22 | ||
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6 | 04:27 | |||
7 | 03:28 | |||
8 | 03:51 | |||
9 | 02:38 | |||
10 | 04:10 | |||
11 | 03:47 | |||
12 | 03:23 | |||
13 | 04:01 | |||
14 | 04:07 |