Sheryl Crow & a friend
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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.
