Detour (Cyndi Lauper album)

Detour
Detour
Studio album by Cyndi Lauper
Released	May 6, 2016
Recorded	2015
Studio	Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee); Sound Stage (Nashville, Tennessee);
Genre	Country and western
Length	38:18
Label	Sire; Rhino; Atlantic;
Producer	Cyndi Lauper; Tony Brown;
Cyndi Lauper chronology
Singles from Detour
	"Hard Candy Christmas"; Released: December 11, 2015; "Funnel of Love"; Released: February 18, 2016;

Detour is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Cyndi Lauper, containing cover versions of country and western songs.^[2] It was released on May 6, 2016, and is the artist's first for Sire Records.^[4] The album was recorded in Nashville and produced by Tony Brown. In the United States, the album debuted at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and number four on the Billboard Top Country Albums and sold 36,800 copies as of September 2016.

Production and content

Lauper's 2010 album Memphis Blues contained cover versions of blues songs, with blues veterans participating. As a follow-up project,^[2] her eleventh album brings together American country music classics from the 1950s and 1960s, and features guest appearances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Willie Nelson.^[5]

The recordings took place in Nashville, with the participation of veteran country music producer Tony Brown and local musicians.^[6] Sire Records owner Seymour Stein is the executive producer and instigator of the project.^[6] The singer said she chose country music because it is one of the styles she listened to most as a child: "When I was a really young kid, country music was pop music, so this is what we grew up listening to", she also said that: "These songs are part of some of my earliest memories so it has been an absolute thrill to revisit them."^[7]

About the experience with the album and the recordings in Nashville, the singer said: "It was exciting to come here and make a record that’s an homage to country", "It's a real singer’s album."^[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	63/100^[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Idolator	^[9]
PopMatters	^[10]
Rolling Stone	^[11]
AllMusic	^[2]

Detour received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Detour has an average score of 63 based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[8] Music critic Keith Harris of Rolling Stone magazine wrote "Aging rock and pop stars often seek a late-career safe harbor in country music, but 62-year-old Cyndi Lauper tackles the genre with characteristically daring eccentricity."^[11] John Paul of PopMatters wrote "Not entirely successful yet not entirely without merit, Cyndi Lauper’s work on Detour is just that: a detour from the norm and an attempt at finding something new in something old."^[10] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic website gave the album three out of five stars and wrote that the record is "equally enamored of cowboy camp as it is of Music City craft and corn" and that " [if the album is] taken as a collection of performances and not a coherent record, it's fun".^[2] Jonathan Riggs from Idolator website gave the album three out of five stars and wrote that "is a bold and exciting move from a true maverick who, throughout all her experimentations, remains instantly recognizable and ever-lovable" he also wrote that the album is the one "Del Rubio Triplets never recorded, but thankfully for us dimestore cowgirls and cowboys, Cyndi did."^[9]

Commercial performance

Detour debuted at number 29 on the US Billboard 200.^[12]^[13] and in the United Kingdom, at number 43 on the UK Albums (OCC).^[14] The album debuted at No. 4 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, selling 16,100 copies in its first week.^[15] The album has sold 36,800 copies as of September 2016.^[16]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original Artist	Length
1.	"Funnel of Love"	Charlie McCoy Kent Westbury	Wanda Jackson	3:15
2.	"Detour" (featuring Emmylou Harris)	Paul Westmoreland	Patti Page	2:55
3.	"Misty Blue"	Bob Montgomery	Wilma Burgess	3:19
4.	"Walkin' After Midnight"	Alan Block Don Hecht	Patsy Cline	2:16
5.	"Heartaches by the Number"	Harlan Howard	Ray Price	3:10
6.	"The End of the World"	Sylvia Dee Arthur Kent	Skeeter Davis	3:12
7.	"Night Life" (featuring Willie Nelson)	Walt Breeland Paul Buskirk Willie Nelson	Willie Nelson	2:58
8.	"Begging to You"	Marty Robbins	Marty Robbins	3:24
9.	"You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" (featuring Vince Gill)	Lola Jean Dillon L. E. White	Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn	3:42
10.	"I Fall to Pieces"	Hank Cochran Howard	Patsy Cline	3:00
11.	"I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" (featuring Jewel)	Patsy Montana	Patsy Montana	3:13
12.	"Hard Candy Christmas" (featuring Alison Krauss)	Carol Hall	Dolly Parton	3:54
Total length:				38:18

Personnel

Cyndi Lauper – lead vocals, producer
Jewel – duet vocals on "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"
Alison Krauss – duet vocals on "Hard Candy Christmas"
Emmylou Harris – duet vocals on "Detour"
Willie Nelson – acoustic guitar and duet vocals on "Night Life"
Vince Gill – acoustic and electric guitar and duet vocals on "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly"
Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar
Tom Bukovac – acoustic guitar
Kenny Greenberg – acoustic and electric guitar
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
Willie Weeks – bass guitar
Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
Steve Nathan – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer electric piano
Tony Brown – piano, producer
Jeff Taylor – accordion
Chad Cromwell – drums
Greg Morrow – drums
Elaine Caswell – background vocals
Perry Coleman – background vocals
Neal Coomer – background vocals
Kim Keyes – background vocals
Lisa Barbaris – executive producer
Seymour Stein – executive producer
Amy Garges – production assistant
Shawn Pelton – engineer
Seth Morton – assistant engineer
Brandon Schexnayder – assistant engineer
Mike Stankiewicz – assistant engineer
William Wittman – engineer, mixing
David Thoener – engineer, mixing
Ryan Smith – mastering
Rick Wilkins – arranger
Ernie Freeman – arranger

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016–17)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[17]	15
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)^[18]	2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[19]	63
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[20]	131
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[21]	69
French Albums (SNEP)^[22]	142
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[23]	64
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[24]	76
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[25]	122
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)^[26]	6
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[27]	32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[28]	55
UK Albums (OCC)^[29]	43
UK Country Artists Albums (OCC)^[30]	1
US Billboard 200^[31]	29
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[32]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2016)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[33]	59

References

^ Flans, Robyn (1 July 2016). "Cyndi Lauper & Tony Brown". Mix. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Cyndi Lauper: Detour" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
^ "Hard Candy Christmas: Cyndi Lauper: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ Spanos, Brittany (2015-12-08). "Hear Cyndi Lauper Cover Dolly Parton's 'Hard Candy Christmas'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ Holub, Christian (January 7, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper details 'Detour' new album". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stark, Phyllis (May 18, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper Explains 'Detour' Into Country Music: 'I Don't Want to Be Stopped, I Want to Keep Growing'". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
^ Fuoco-Karasinski, Christina (October 2, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper is Just Having Fun: 'Detour' takes '80s singer down country path". The Entertainer! Magazine. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Critic Reviews for Detour". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Riggs, Jonathan (May 6, 2016). "Detour". Idolator.
^ ^a ^b Paul, John (May 6, 2016). "Detour". PopMatters.
^ ^a ^b Harris, Keith (May 6, 2016). "Detour". Rolling Stone.
^ "Cyndi Lauper". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
^ "Billboard 200". Billboard. May 28, 2016.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
^ Bjorke, Matt (May 19, 2016). "Country Albums Chart Report: May 19, 2016". Roughstock.
^ Bjorke, Matt (September 19, 2016). "Country Album Sales Chart: September 19, 2016". Roughstock.
^ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. April 10, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
^ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Country Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. May 16, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ "Ultratop.be – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
^ "Ultratop.be – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
^ "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
^ "Lescharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
^ "Italiancharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
^ "シンディ・ローパーのアルバム売上ランキング".
^ "NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
^ "Swisscharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
^ "Official Country Artists Albums Chart (13 May 2016 - 19 May 2016)". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
^ "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2016". Billboard. Retrieved July 25, 2020.

[MixJul2016-1] Flans, Robyn (1 July 2016). "Cyndi Lauper & Tony Brown". Mix. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

[Allmusic-2] "Cyndi Lauper: Detour" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

[3] "Hard Candy Christmas: Cyndi Lauper: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-02-07.

[4] Spanos, Brittany (2015-12-08). "Hear Cyndi Lauper Cover Dolly Parton's 'Hard Candy Christmas'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2016-02-07.

[5] Holub, Christian (January 7, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper details 'Detour' new album". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 5, 2021.

[detourbillinfo-6] Stark, Phyllis (May 18, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper Explains 'Detour' Into Country Music: 'I Don't Want to Be Stopped, I Want to Keep Growing'". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2021.

[detourmetrosource-7] Fuoco-Karasinski, Christina (October 2, 2016). "Cyndi Lauper is Just Having Fun: 'Detour' takes '80s singer down country path". The Entertainer! Magazine. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2021.

[metacritic-8] "Critic Reviews for Detour". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 5, 2017.

[Idolator-9] Riggs, Jonathan (May 6, 2016). "Detour". Idolator.

[PM-10] Paul, John (May 6, 2016). "Detour". PopMatters.

[RS-11] Harris, Keith (May 6, 2016). "Detour". Rolling Stone.

[12] "Cyndi Lauper". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-10-04.

[13] "Billboard 200". Billboard. May 28, 2016.

[14] "Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.

[15] Bjorke, Matt (May 19, 2016). "Country Albums Chart Report: May 19, 2016". Roughstock.

[16] Bjorke, Matt (September 19, 2016). "Country Album Sales Chart: September 19, 2016". Roughstock.

[17] "ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. April 10, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.

[18] "ARIA Australian Top 50 Country Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. May 16, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.

[ac_Flanders_Cyndi_Lauper-19] "Ultratop.be – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

[ac_Wallonia_Cyndi_Lauper-20] "Ultratop.be – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

[ac_BillboardCanada_Cyndi_Lauper-21] "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

[ac_France_Cyndi_Lauper-22] "Lescharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 16, 2016.

[ac_Germany4_Cyndi_Lauper-23] "Offiziellecharts.de – Cyndi Lauper – Detour" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

[ac_Italy_Cyndi_Lauper-24] "Italiancharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

[25] "シンディ・ローパーのアルバム売上ランキング".

[26] "NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.

[ac_Scotland_-27] "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 8, 2023.

[ac_Switzerland_Cyndi_Lauper-28] "Swisscharts.com – Cyndi Lauper – Detour". Hung Medien. Retrieved May 18, 2016.

[ac_UK2_-29] "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

[30] "Official Country Artists Albums Chart (13 May 2016 - 19 May 2016)". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[ac_Billboard200_Cyndi_Lauper-31] "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

[ac_BillboardCountry_Cyndi_Lauper-32] "Cyndi Lauper Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

[33] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2016". Billboard. Retrieved July 25, 2020.

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Detour (Cyndi Lauper album)

Production and content

Critical reception

Commercial performance

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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