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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Sheryl was on David Letterman February 4th. I made captures from it. The video will be up when I open the video archive. We have a new gallery layout. Hope you like it.

GALLERY LINKS:

- The Late Show With David Letterman – February 4, 2008

To celebrate the release of her new album Detours, Sheryl Crow will be taking over SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s The Spectrum (Channel 18) for five straight days! Listeners will hear a track-by-track preview and in-depth discussion of her new CD, plus exclusive performances of songs from Detours and some of her classic hits from the SIRIUS studios. Sheryl Crow’s Spectrum kicks off Monday, February 4th at 7 A.M. ET – only on SIRIUS Channel 18.

And if you don’t have SIRIUS, you can still listen by signing up for our FREE 3-DAY ONLINE TRIAL. Just go to: www.sirius.com/3forfree

I added 4 photoshoots, a scan of Sheryl’s Got Milk? ad, scans from Redbook and Billboard Magazine, and captures from the Every Day is a Winding Road music video.

GALLERY LINKS:

- Session #014
- Session #015
- Session #016
- Session #017
- Got Milk? – Ads
- Redbook – March 2006
- Billboard – January 26, 2008
- Every Day is a Winding Road Captures

Sheryl Crow has left Santa Monica Boulevard with her new CD, “Detours.” The singer—and new mom—spoke to Jac Chebatoris:

Congratulations on the new baby, new record — and surviving cancer. How are you doing?
I am fantastic. In fact, can you hang on a second? I’m going to move because my son’s in here and he wants to play. [Baby noise] Sorry about that.

How old is he?
Nine months, and he’s trying so hard to walk. He’s crawling at, like, 90 miles an hour, pulling up on everything. The madness begins!

How is writing with him around?
It’s interesting that you can go out and talk about the environment with college kids, but until you have a kid and you’re really emotionally invested in what kind of planet you’re leaving for your kid, you don’t realize the sense of urgency that you’ll feel.

Do you feel a responsibility as an artist to get these issues out there in your songs?
I don’t feel a responsibility to write about it—I feel an urgency. It’s a really compelling time, and it would feel really wasteful to not talk about the things that are right in front of me. The fact that we’re not all out in the streets and trying to incite change is indicative of just how numbed out we are.

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Sheryl Crow will release her new album, Detours, on February 5, and while making the record, she surprised a former collaborator with a phone call. Crow famously had a falling out with the musicians who recorded her breakthrough record, Tuesday Night Music Club, after the success of her debut. Producer Bill Bottrell called Crow “hopeless” and “obnoxious” in a Rolling Stone interview in the mid-’90s.

However, Crow buried the hatchet with Bottrell last summer while working on Detours. “He said, ‘I’ve been waiting years for this call,’” Crow told Rolling Stone. “It was a sweet homecoming for the both of us.” Crow and Bottrell recorded 24 songs in about a month and a half in Crow’s Nashville home. She says the adoption of her son Wyatt inspired her songwriting this time. “I couldn’t write fast enough - having this tiny, innocent spirit made me fearless,” she says. “I felt a sense of urgency to write about what’s really happening.”

Detours includes the political “God Bless This Mess,” the lead single “Love Is Free” and “Diamond Ring,” of which Crow jokingly notes, “All I can say is that I’ve been ­engaged three times. So I have a thing about diamonds.”

Crow currently has three concerts on tap: two appearances in New York City on February 6 and 7 and one in Los Angeles on March 11.

There won’t be any updates here until after New Years. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!