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- Summary: Sheryl Crow returns from an eventful few years with her latest record produced by Brian Bottrell, who also produced her debut.
- Record Label: A&M
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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One Two One, two, three! She got a shack Floating down the Pontchartrain With the water rolling in You gotta swim Before the levees start to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 19
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Mixed: 5 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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In Detours' subdued second half, though, Crow lays off the social commentary to address her own recent rough patches, with lyrics that grow more absorbing and intimate as Bottrell's eclecticism simmers down.
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Crow's progressive lyrics hit like rubber-band pings fired by some joker in the back row at school. No one is likely to sing her verses at a march on Washington. But by addressing serious issues in the language of pop, they remind us that political speech and casual breeze-shooting can and do often intersect.
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The roots-rock of Detours is old-school-sounding Crow now with a heightened consciousness of the world around her.
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Crow's earnest, adult-contemporary crooning isn't as musically subversive as that of her protest-singer predecessors, but some of the scrappier cuts here ('God Bless This Mess,' 'Shine Over Babylon') are genuinely compelling.
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Detours may not be the most musically edgy album you'll listen to this year, but there aren't many people better at producing radio-friendly rock/pop.
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Cohesion’s where you find it, but headphone delights are everywhere.
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Detours clearly wants to be Bob Dylan but ends up being Bob Roberts instead.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 4 out of 21
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Negative: 2 out of 21
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ChrisD.Mar 25, 2008
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LauraF.Feb 29, 2008
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ScottW.Feb 18, 2008
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TSFeb 7, 2008
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Sep 26, 2014
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AndrewM.Feb 13, 2008
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O.GawdApr 2, 2008
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