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Sheryl Crow - Detours
| Ew | | Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan — irked by the glittery antiwar messages emblazoned on Sheryl Crow's T-shirts during TV appearances — once called her a ''brain-dead peacenik in sequins.'' And that's before the message-mongering even became a big part of her CDs. In the first half of her sixth studio album, Detours, Crow lays on the cynic-baiting pacifism: She duets with singer Ahmed Al Hirmi, who croons in Arabic on ''Peace Be Upon Us''; on ''Out of Our Heads,'' she tells the ''children of Abraham'' to ''lay down your fears''; and she laments ''a war all based on lies'' in ''God Bless This Mess.''...full text |
| | Allmusic | | 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....full text |
| | Calendarlive | THERE'S a concept in psychology of the "good-enough mother" -- the exemplary caregiver who satisfies a child's needs without smothering budding independence. Today's stressed-out parents have turned to this 1950s ideal of relaxed but sensitive nurturing again, almost as an alibi. A "good-enough" mom deserves praise even if she doesn't purée her own baby food. In fact, as rampant consumerism, shrinking resources and reality-TV psychosis cast us all as competitors, the phrase "good enough" has become a general salve.
Sheryl Crow is one star who embodies this ideal -- a "good-enough" mother for us all. ...full text |
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