Sheryl Crow released her latest cd Detours this Tuesday. I've always felt like Crow is a great singer-songwriter who got caught up in the corporate trappings of being a sucessful pop star. Her new cd is a lot more personal and political and invokes Dylan, George Harrison and The Stones. She's reunited with her Tuesday Night Music Club producer Bill Botrell (who also produced Shelby Lynne's amazing breakthough album). "Bless This Mess" takes on the current state of the US and the video was shot in Washington DC. Sheryl sat down for an excellent interview with Terry Gross on Tuesday's Fresh Air where she also performed some of the new album acoustic.

Ed Brubaker has has an amazing run on Captain America and it keeps getting better and better. After the main character's assassination, his long believed dead sidekick has taken up the shield. Brubaker laid the foundations for his story so well that even these so-called event issues just feel like part of the organic story. I'm loving the inclusion of the current US economic crisis in the latest issue. If only we could blame the Red Skull for our problems.