
Detour is a country music album and the eleventh studio album by American recording artist Cyndi Lauper. It was released on May 6, 2016, and is the artist’s first for Sire Records. 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.
Cyndi Lauper’s eleventh album brings together, in the twelve unreleased tracks in the singer’s catalog, American country music classics from the 1950s and 1960s and features guest appearances by Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Willie Nelson.
The recordings took place in Nashville, with the participation of veteran country music producer Tony Brown and a substantial number of renowned musicians from the so-called Music City. Sire Records owner Seymour Stein is the executive producer and instigator of the project. 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.”
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.”
- “Funnel of Love” 3:15
- “Detour” (featuring Emmylou Harris) 2:55
- “Misty Blue” 3:19
- “Walkin’ After Midnight” 2:16
- “Heartaches by the Number” 3:10
- “The End of the World” 3:12
- “Night Life” (featuring Willie Nelson) 2:58
- “Begging to You” 3:24
- “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly” (featuring Vince Gill) 3:42
- “I Fall to Pieces” 3:00
- “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (featuring Jewel) 3:13
- “Hard Candy Christmas” (featuring Alison Krauss) 3:54
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