Not much scares Sheryl Crow these days.

Not breast cancer, which she’s battled into remission. Not public heartbreak, which is less raw now. Not writing bolder lyrics, which means less radio play.

“The last three years were a real awakening for me,” Crow says, during a stop to promote her first album since 2005. “I’ve felt a fearlessness I’ve never felt before.”

That bravery is the product of a one-two punch — the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness only days after the collapse of her engagement to bike champion Lance Armstrong.

Last spring, she poured out her feelings in a studio built at her new Tennessee farm. With newly adopted baby Wyatt keeping her company, she knocked out 24 songs in 40 days. The result is “Detours,” a CD that veers from the intensely personal to the unabashedly political, from cancer and love lost to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war.

“A lot of defining moments brought me to a place where by the time I sat down to write, I felt not only inspired but urgent about what I was writing about,” she says.

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