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Memphis Blues |  | Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Label: Downtown
Category: Music
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 108
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
UPC: 878037016628
EAN: 0878037016628
ASIN: B003HTPHSQ
Release Date: June 21, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | I'm Just Your Fool (feat. Charlie Musselwhite) | | • | Shattered Dreams (feat. Allen Toussaint) | | • | Early in the Morning (feat. Allen Toussaint & B.B. King) | | • | Romance in the Dark | | • | How Blue Can You Get (feat. Jonny Lang) | | • | Down Don t Bother Me (feat. Charlie Musselwhite) | | • | Don't Cry No More | | • | Rollin and Tumblin (feat. Kenny Brown and Ann Peebles) | | • | Down So Low | | • | Mother Earth (feat. Allen Toussaint) | | • | Cross Roads (feat. Jonny Lang) |
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Album Description
2010 album from the Pop diva, a traditional Memphis Blues album featuring guest appearances from Jonny Lang, B.B. King and others. After more than 20 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 25 million, Cyndi Lauper has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move. With her first album She's So Unusual, Cyndi won a Grammy award for Best New Artist and became the first female artist in history to have five Top 10 singles from a debut album. Along the way, she has continually won accolades as a singer, musician, actress, and writer.
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 Her True Colors Still Shine Through June 21, 2010
Cory T. Shaeffer (Pittsburgh)
80 out of 82 found this review helpful
It's pretty amazing when you consider all of the major album releases and tours by todays hottest female pop stars (Lady Gaga, Madonna, Xtina, etc.) - how every one of them dabble in futuristic pop, and assisted songwriting from JR Rotem, Tricky Stewart, Red One and all the like.....
So what does Cyndi Lauper do? She goes and records a full-on blues album with help from B.B. King, Charlie Musslewhite, and Johnny Lang, among others. Sometimes the legacy of an artist is the art itself, and not the image, or the celebrity, or the drama, or the gossip. Cyndi Lauper has one of the best voices on the planet, and she is way past her due. One of the world's most tragically underrated artists may finally get it here.
From the opening moments of "Just Your Fool" it immediately becomes apparent that this is a heartfelt, gritty, and emotional album. And it is blues all the way. "Crossroads" is another standout, with the guitar work from Lang typically stellar. But this album does not rest strictly on the guest performances. "Down So Low" and "Romance in the Dark" are basically Cyndi's solo work, making the whole thing even more impressive.
But the thing that impresses me the most is the fact that this is still a Cyndi Lauper album. Her signature sound and vocal phrasing is still easily recognizable, as many of the songs are comparable to the standards on her 2003 mini-masterpiece, the covers album "At Last." As I said - it's the art that one leaves behind that determines their legacy. Some pop tarts go for shock value, and tabloid pics, and hire the latest hip-hop guru to create songs for them. Cyndi Lauper records with the legendary B.B. King. There has always been a unique twist to Cyndi's work (one would be hard-pressed to find two songs in her entire catalog that sound exactly alike), but this one tops them all. This is a major artistic statement from someone who many critics thought was 20 years past her prime. That really shows what the critics know. Do yourself a favor - buy this album.
Case In Point June 21, 2010
NightShade (USA)
48 out of 54 found this review helpful
Cyndi Lauper was one of those artists in the 80's that I didn't really care for. Her style of dress was outlandish and her musical material was bubble gum at best. But I have learned that it is those strange artists that can surprise you. As in this new release from Cyndi Lauper. Memphis Blues has heart and soul, and is every bit of the blues as the blues should be. The vocals are amazingly mature and full of passion for the music.. And the music is certainly the kind that one would hear in a an old blues club filled with the blue smog of too many smokers bad habits. Memphis Blues is top notch and shows what an artist can do when they decide to mature and explore new horizons. Earlier today I wrote reviews for two rock legends cd's, (Ozzy Osbourne and Vince Neil.) Both of those albums were uneventful throwbacks to a time in musics past. Then along comes someone like Cyndi Lauper and blows them both out of the water with passion and style... Kudos Cyndi.
awesome classical blues sound- if you like blues, you must get this. June 23, 2010
Borisovich (Maryland, USA.,)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
In this age of talentless schlock put out by numerous "pop stars", it is refreshing to get an album recorded by real musicians. No auto-tune here.
I have never been a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper - I always respected her for being true to her style, and enjoyed seeing her on "Celebrity Apprentice", but this new album is really something unexpected. It has a great "true blue" sound that would resonate throughout times, going both forward and back. I keep thinking that, if not for the superb digital quality, this album could have been produced 40 or 50 years ago, it just has that timeless quality to it.
Cyndi SheBops The Blues! June 23, 2010
R. M. Desjardins (Vancouver, B.C. Canada)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
A dream Cyndi Lauper had whereby jazz pianist Oscar Peterson stated he liked her version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On" and suggested she should do some old songs and make them modern the way Janis Joplin did inspired her to make a blues record. Newly signed to Downtown Records, Lauper wanted to explore new musical direction with no compromises. Recorded in Memphis with legends such as Allen Toussaint, B.B. King, Charlie Musselwhite, Ann Pebbles, Johhny Lang, and veteran Stax Records session players, Lauper wanted to make a record with a pure, live sound, and she got it right.
It takes a lot of chutzpa for a white girl from Brooklyn to take on attempting such a project, and during the recording sessions, Lauper admitted she heard this voice in her head whisper "You know everyone else will be more that good, but I might not be good enough." She needn't have worried because she more than does more than justice to the 12 classic blues songs served up in her unique vocal style, covered in Memphis Blues.
Standout tracks include the classic, "Romance In The Dark," penned and originally performed by Lillian "Lil" Green who died of pneumonia at age 34 in 1954, Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" and Rollin' And Tumblin' a duet featuring the legendary Ann Peebles.
Dedicated to Ma Rainy, mother of the blues and all the early blues artists who travelled through the cross roads, suitcases in hand, Cyndi Lauper hits the Blues and Jazz Festival circuit this summer to perform material from this standout recording and will surely win many new fans. Recommended listening and an excellent move forward from a recording artist who continues to surprise and thrill!
If sales from this recording warrant it, hopefully Lauper will give serious consideration to a companion volume paying homage to female blues singers like Ma Rainy, Big Mama Thornton, Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, etc and delving further in the songbook of Lillian "Lil" Green, all legends who need to be re-introduced to a contemporary audience. Sheboppin' the blues indeed!
"Cyndi Does The Blues",a new album Cyndi Lauper. June 22, 2010
M. Mariba (south africa)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have known Cyndi Lauper since 80s, liked and bought her two albums "She Is So Unusual" & "True Colors".These are pop/rock albums that made her a star in the 80s & 90s.Live performances have always been phenomenal from this singer-songwriter from New York.On this wonderful new release "Memphis Blues",Cyndi Lauper collaborates with great blues artists : Charlie Musselwhite ("I'm Just Your Fool" & "Down Don't Bother Me"),Allen Toussaint (Shattered Dreams","Mother Earth" & "Early In The Morning" with the legendary blues maestro B.B.King), Johnny Lang ("How Blue Can You Get" & Cross Roads") & Kenny Brown ("Rolling And Tumblin'" with Peebles).There is however one solo beautiful effort by Cyndi Lauper in this album release,namely "Wild Women Don't Get The Blues" [This track is not included in digipak but in iTunes & Import CD versions only].Cyndi Lauper is back with & in "Memphis Blues" with a bang,can't wait to see a release of her live performances in support of her new blues album of note "Memphis Blues"!
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