1. High and Mighty 
  2. Into the Nightlife 
  3. Rocking Chair 
  4. Echo 
  5. Lyfe 
  6. Same Ol' Story 
  7. Raging Storm 
  8. Lay Me Down 		play
  9. Give It Up		play 
  10. Medley: Set Your Heart/Where Are All My Friends 
  11. Grab a Hold 
  12. Rain on Me 
  13. Got Candy (Bonus)
  14. Can't Breathe (Bonus)

Personnel:
Cyndi Lauper – vocals
Knox Chandler – guitar
Richard Morel - Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By, Producer
Craig Considine – trombone
Dave Finnell – trumpet
William Wittman – bass
Dan Kurtz, Steve Gaboruy – keyboards
Sammy Merendino – drums
Roger Fife – Synthesizer

Since 1983, when Cyndi Lauper and Madonna both dropped debut albums and fought for the leg-warmer love of the burgeoning MTV nation, there hasn't been much reason to compare the two pop stars. Yet here they both are 25 years later, returning to the same terrain: the dance floor. Nixing the adult-contemporary vibe of her last studio album, 1997's mixed-bag Sisters of Avalon, Lauper teams up with pop-song doctors from the studio of Max Martin (Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson) and electro wizardsincluding Basement Jaxx and the Scumfrog for an album of club throb. On the pulsing Euro disco "Into the Nightlife," Lauper sings about happily partying, but by "Same Ol' Story" she's in full-out soul-diva mode, bitching about an unbalanced relationship with throaty emphasis. Closer "Rain on Me" glances back to her classic "Time After Time" with glowing synths, but it feels a bit chilly. Brink never reaches a full serotoninexplosion like Confessions on a Dancefloor, but at least Lauper hastaken after the competition and found a new groove. ---Caryn Ganz, rollingstone.com

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01. Funnel Of Love
02. Detour (feat. Emmylou Harris)
03. Misty Blue
04. Walkin' After Midnight
05. Heartaches By The Number
06. The End Of The World
07. Night Life (feat. Willie Nelson)
08. Begging To You
09. You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly (feat. Vince Gill)
10. I Fall To Pieces
11. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (feat. Jewel)
12. Hard Candy Christmas (feat. Alison Krauss)

Cyndi Lauper - Vocals,Art Direction, Producer
Tony Brown - Piano, Producer
Tom Bukovac - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Elaine Caswell - Vocals (Background)
Perry Coleman - Vocals (Background)
Neal Coomer - Vocals (Background)
Chad Cromwell - Drums
Dan Dugmore - Guitar (Steel)
Vince Gill - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Kenny Greenberg - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Aubrey Haynie - Fiddle, Mandolin
Kim Keyes - Vocals (Background)
Greg Morrow - Drums
Steve Nathan - Hammond B3, Piano, Synthesizer, Wurlitzer
Willie Nelson - Guitar (Acoustic)
Jimmie Lee Sloas - Bass
Bryan Sutton - Guitar (Acoustic)
Jeff Taylor - Accordion
Willie Weeks - 	Bass 

A spiritual sequel of sorts to Memphis Blues, Detour finds Cyndi Lauper swapping out blues for country & western. The "western" part of the equation is crucial to Detour, a record equally enamored of cowboy camp as it is of Music City craft and corn. Such a wide purview is testament to Lauper's taste-savvy show biz sensibilities, but by balancing ballads with riotous romps, she winds up with a bit of a mess on her hands. On their own, the slow-burning-torch set pieces of "End of the World" and "I Fall to Pieces" have their charms -- they offer ample evidence of Lauper's nuance and control, elements that are often underrated -- but when paired with the ferocious, mincing wink of "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly," "Cowboy Sweetheart," and "Detour," the spell is broken. Matters aren't helped much by the presence of Dolly Parton's "Hard Candy Christmas" -- a fine, faithful rendition that closes off the record on a sweet note --= and the crisp, digital modern sheen of the opener "Funnel of Love," elements that pull Detour even further down a winding backroad. Such sudden shifts in tone might work better on-stage than they do on record, and with its cavalcade of guest stars, Detour often does play a bit like a stage revue, for better or worse. After all, much of Lauper's charm lies in her innate theatricality, and when she's paired with someone who shares her humor -- Emmylou Harris on "Detour" and, especially, Vince Gill on "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" -- there's a crackling vitality that nevertheless winds up diluting the diva showstoppers, something that could possibly be finessed on-stage but seems like a sharp turn on record. Nevertheless, on a track-by-track level, Detour has a few stumbles -- the biggest is "Night Life," and that's due to the gravelly growl of Willie Nelson, not Lauper -- and if it's taken as a collection of performances and not a coherent record, it's fun. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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01 - Time After Time
02 - Hey Now
03 - True Colors
04 - World Is Stone
05 - What's Going On
06 - I Drove All Night
07 - Iko Iko
08 - She Bop
09 - All Through The Night
10 - Change Of Heart
11 - I Don't Want To Be Your Friend
12 - Sisters Of Avalon
13 - Who Let In The Rain
14 - Money Changes Everything
15 - Goonies 'R' Good Enough
16 - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
17 - If You Go Away
18 - Hymn To Love
19 - Vie En Rose
20 - When You Were Mine
21 - Early Bird

Cyndi Lauper (born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper on June 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a Grammy Award-winning singer (who possesses a four-octave vocal range) and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. She was lead singer of the rockabilly band Blue Angel before her rise to fame as a solo singer. Her melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980s and New Wave — the decade and genre in which she first came to fame.

Born in Queens, New York to Swiss German-American Fred Lauper and Sicilian Italian-American Catrine Dominique, she began her career in a cover band, but soon began performing her own songs (though she almost quit singing altogether due to strained vocal chords in 1977). By 1980 she’d released a rockabilly album on Polydor with the band Blue Angel. Despite much critical acclaim, the album “went lead,” as Lauper says, and the band split as Lauper filed for bankruptcy.

In 1983 she started dating her manager David Wolff with whom she released She’s So Unusual, a worldwide hit album which made Lauper a household name. A mixture of teen-friendly pop-rock and edgier, almost punky sounds, the album’s biggest hit, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, quickly established itself as a female anthem. Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards of 1984 for her work on the album. Lauper was the first female artist to have four consecutive Hot 100 Top 5 hits from one album.

Subsequent albums (such as True Colors, A Night To Remember, Hat Full Of Stars) did not sell as well, but Lauper remains active to the present day and still retains a very strong fan base.

Lauper’s latest album Memphis Blues was released in June 2011, premiering at #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart where it remained for 14 consecutive weeks. The album also reached #26 on the Billboard Top 200, and was later named the Billboard Blues Album of the year, also earning Lauper a Grammy nomination. This brought her total Grammy nominations to 13 with one win.

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01. Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun 03:50
02. Cyndi Lauper – She Bop 03:47
03. Cyndi Lauper – I Drove All Night 04:11
04. Cyndi Lauper – What’s Going On 04:37
05. Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time 03:59           play
06. Cyndi Lauper – True Colors 03:47
07. Cyndi Lauper – All Through The Night 04:27
08. Cyndi Lauper – The World Is Stone 04:22
09. Cyndi Lauper – I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend 04:23
10. Cyndi Lauper – The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough 03:38
11. Cyndi Lauper – Maybe He’ll Know 04:26
12. Cyndi Lauper – When You Were Mine 04:58
13. Cyndi Lauper – Iko Iko 02:04                    play
14. Cyndi Lauper – Change Of Heart 04:24
15. Cyndi Lauper – Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun) 03:52

Cyndi Lauper burst onto the world stage as the quintessential girl who wants to have fun. After more than 25 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 30 million, she has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move. The beauty of Cyndi Lauper is that she has evolved into a richly multifaceted renaissance woman who strikes a resonant chord with each project. 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. She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 7 American Video Awards and 18 MTV Awards.

At the center of Cyndi’s life is music. On June 22nd, she releases her 11th studio album entitled Memphis Blues. With this collection of blues cover songs, she is once again reinventing herself by putting her unique twist on one of music’s most beloved genres. The feel of Memphis Blues is gritty and full of life. Recorded this March at Electraphonic Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, the album features appearances by such great artists as B.B. King, Jonny Lang, Allen Toussaint, Ann Peebles and Charlie Musselwhite.

“This is the album I’ve wanted to make for years,” says Lauper. “All of these beautiful songs, and all of the great players on the album, were carefully chosen because I’ve admired them my entire life. And I knew from the moment Alan Toussaint hit the keys in ‘Shattered Dreams’ that we were creating something really special.”

An Emmy Award winner for her guest starring role as Marianne Lugasso on “Mad About You”, Cyndi continues to show her range as an actress and personality on television, in film and on stage. Currently, she is appearing in the recurring role of bewitching psychic Avalon Harmonia on the FOX hit “Bones” and just finished competing on the recent edition of the NBC hit “Celebrity Apprentice.” Cyndi recently inked a deal with Mark Burnett Productions for her own reality series set to launch later this year. In film, Cyndi has appeared in such motion pictures as Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Fine Line/Mirimax), Life With Mikey (Touchstone), Off and Running (Independent), and Vibes (Columbia/Imagine). Perhaps most notable has been her affecting, acclaimed performance opposite Christopher Walken in The Opportunist (Independent).

In 2006, Cyndi made her Broadway debut as Jenny in The Threepenny Opera and is currently writing the music for the Broadway adaptation of the British film Kinky Boots. Cyndi has enjoyed a sparkling and colorful life that continues to expand to greater creative heights and global prestige. She is currently capturing her journey in literary form for an autobiography that will be released via Simon & Schuster. It will, no doubt, be another bar-raising milestone in a career that continues to leave the world craving more. "I still have so much to say and share," she says. "I'm grateful for each and everyday that I get to make music. As long as there's a corner of the world where people want to hear me, I'll be there… singing and acting and writing my heart out."

An unwavering advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality since the start of her career, Cyndi created the True Colors Tour in 2007. The Tour has brought together artists like Erasure, The B-52s, the Indigo Girls, Deborah Harry and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts for shows that successfully merge great music and public awareness about the issues facing the LGBT community.

To further her role as an activist, Cyndi founded the True Colors Fund in 2008. The non-profit seeks to inspire and engage everyone, particularly the straight community, to become involved in the advancement of LGBT equality. The Fund recently launched the Give a Damn Campaign, an extensive and innovative online public education and awareness initiative. In addition, Cyndi is the Honorary Chairperson of the True Colors Residence, the first project of its kind to provide a permanent, supportive and secure home to formerly homeless LGBT youth in New York City. In appreciation for her work, Cyndi has been honored by many organizations including the Human Rights Campaign, GLSEN and PFLAG.

"It's an honor to always have the genuine affection of the gay community,” Cyndi says. “They have never turned their back on me. I will never turn my back on them. We've had a long and enduring love affair.” Cyndi is also a tireless participant in the struggle to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Most recently, Cyndi has joined with Lady Gaga to be the spokespeople for the 2010 MAC Viva Glam Campaign and to educate woman about HIV/AIDS around the world. She also continues to participate in efforts and events for organizations like AMFAR, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in order to speak out about the need for education and greater resources to fight this disease.

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