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Detour (2016)

Where the lyrics of Detour take you, and where it was really made.

Cyndi Lauper's first album for Sire Records is a set of country covers, and it debuted at number 29 on the Billboard 200 while reaching number four on the country chart.

Key places

Recorded at Sound Emporium Studios (2016)

Recording site Sound Emporium Studios — Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville is listed among the recording places for Detour. The pin is set at building level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded at Sound Stage (2016)

Recording site Sound Stage Studios — Sound Stage in Nashville is listed among the recording places for Detour. The pin is set at building level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded in Nashville (2016)

Recording site Nashville — Nashville is given as the general recording city for Detour, with Tony Brown and local musicians taking part. The pin is set at city-center level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Detour: studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, a set of country and western cover songs
• Released May 6, 2016; the artist's first release on Sire Records
• Recorded in Nashville and produced by Tony Brown
• Digisleeve packaging with a 12-page booklet, printed in U.S.A.

Background

• Follows Memphis Blues (2010), an album of blues covers with blues veterans taking part
• Material is American country music classics from the 1950s and 1960s
• Sire Records owner Seymour Stein is executive producer and instigator of the project
• Guest appearances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Willie Nelson
• Lauper chose country because it was one of the styles she listened to most as a child

Recording

• Sessions took place in Nashville with veteran country music producer Tony Brown and local musicians
• Recording places listed for the album: Sound Emporium Studios and Sound Stage in Nashville
• Willie Nelson recorded an unreleased track, Night Life, for the album

Cover

• Digisleeve packaging with a 12-page booklet, printed in U.S.A.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, born June 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
• Known for an eccentric image and a four-octave vocal range; dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop".
• Has sold over 50 million records worldwide.
• Debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) produced four top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits, a first for a female debut artist, and won Best New Artist at the 27th Grammy Awards.
• Won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kinky Boots (2013), the first woman to win the category solo.
• Received two Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy, a Tony, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2015).
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2025.
• Has been a prominent LGBTQ rights advocate, founding True Colors United in 2008 to address LGBTQ youth homelessness.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album three out of five stars and said it is equally enamored of cowboy camp and Music City craft
• Keith Harris of Rolling Stone wrote that aging rock and pop stars often seek a late-career safe harbor in country music, and praised Lauper's characteristically daring eccentricity at age 62
• John Paul of PopMatters wrote that the album is not entirely successful yet not entirely without merit, a detour from the norm
• Jonathan Riggs of Idolator gave the album three out of five stars and called it a bold and exciting move

Reappraisal

• Metacritic gives an average score of 63 based on 11 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating generally favorable reviews

Records

• Debuted at number 29 on the US Billboard 200 and at number four on the Top Country Albums chart
• Sold 16,100 copies in its first week in the United States
• Debuted at number 43 on the UK Albums (OCC) chart
• Sold 36,800 copies as of September 2016

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Seymour Stein of Sire Records acted as executive producer and was the instigator of the project.
• Lauper said that when she was a young child, country music was pop music to her, so it is what she grew up listening to.
• Willie Nelson recorded a new track, Night Life, for the album, confirmed in January 2016.
• The album sits beside Lauper's 2010 blues-covers album Memphis Blues as a follow-up project.
• Lauper described the songs as among her earliest memories and called revisiting them an absolute thrill.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

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