Memphis Blues (album)

Memphis Blues
Studio album by
Cyndi Lauper
ReleasedJune 22, 2010 (2010-06-22)
RecordedMarch 2010
StudioElectraphonic Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreBlues
Length45:41
LabelDowntown
Producer
Cyndi Lauper chronology
True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper
(2009) 		Memphis Blues
(2010) 		Kinky Boots
(2013)
Singles from Memphis Blues
  1. "Just Your Fool"
    Released: 18 May 2010[1]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic45/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
New York Post[4]
Rolling Stone[5]

Memphis Blues is the eleventh studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, containing cover versions of classic blues songs. Regarded as a continuation of her 2008 comeback, the album was a nominee for the Grammy Awards 2010 and was released on her 57th birthday, June 22, 2010. According to the Brazilian daily newspaper O Globo, the album had sold 600,000 copies worldwide by November 2010.[6] Memphis Blues was voted the 7th best album of 2010 by the New York Post,[7] and it went on to become Billboard's biggest selling blues album of 2010. To support the album, Lauper made her biggest tour ever, the Memphis Blues Tour, which had more than 140 shows.

  1. ^ "Just Your Fool by Cyndi Lauper". Amazon.com. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
  2. ^ "Critic Reviews for Memphis Blues". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  3. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Cyndi Lauper: Memphis Blues > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Aquilante, Dan (June 22, 2010). "Her true colors may be blues". New York Post. News Corporation. ISSN 1090-3321. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  5. ^ Maerz, Melissa (June 21, 2010). "Cyndi Lauper: Memphis Blues". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  6. ^ Miguel, Antônio Carlos (January 20, 2011). "Cyndi Lauper volta ao Brasil renovada pelo passado" [Cyndi Lauper back to Brazil renewed by the past]. O Globo (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. OCLC 24111258. Archived from the original on November 26, 2012.
  7. ^ "Top 10 albums". New York Post. 12 December 2010.