Cyndi Lauper has gone country! Well at least for the new album. A fun track in true Cyndi style with maybe a bit of dirt roads, boots and twang to liven it up. “Funnel of Love” is from her new studio album Detour, due out on May 6th and lovingly described as:
Cyndi Lauper’s celebrated musical journey takes an unexpected southern turn on DETOUR, her 11th studio album, which finds the Grammy®, Emmy® and Tony®-winning singer-songwriter putting her signature spin on a dozen classic country songs.
“A lot of songs on this record are from that period of country-western music right before rock & roll came along. I studied a lot of singers, and Wanda Jackson, who originally sang this, was one of the original rock & rollers. I wanted this song to have that live sound, and it does.”
– Cyndi Lauper
“When I was a really young kid, country music was pop music, so this is what we grew up listening to,” Cyndi shares. These songs are part of some of my earliest memories ” The album’s first single, “Funnel of Love,” was originally recorded in 1961 by rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson .