Tuskegee (album)

Tuskegee
Studio album by Lionel Richie
Released	March 5, 2012 (2012-03-05)
Recorded	2010−2011
Genre	Pop country R&B
Length	59:10
Label	Mercury
Producer	Tony Brown Buddy Cannon Nathan Chapman Kenny Chesney Dann Huff Dirk Vanoucek (assoc.)
Lionel Richie chronology
Just Go (2009) Tuskegee (2012)

Tuskegee is the tenth studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on March 5, 2012, by Mercury Records. The album consists entirely of reinterpretations of previously released songs by Richie, each performed with a different guest artist, all of which are stars in the country music genre. Tuskegee is named after the Alabama city where Richie was born and later completed his undergraduate degree at Tuskegee Institute.^[1]

The album became Richie's third number-one album on the Billboard 200 and his first since Dancing on the Ceiling in 1986. Tuskegee also became Richie's first album to sell more than a million copies in the United States since Dancing on the Ceiling.