Published in the Vancouver Sun on September 1, 2010.
BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN
“The blues had a baby and it was rock ‘n’ roll. I’ve basically spent most of my life singing [the blues],” Cyndi Lauper says over the phone from West Wendover, Nev., where the landscape sparks a random exclamation of “I feel like I’m on Mars!”
Lauper, who is known for her 1980s dance-driven rock-pop and the essential ladies-night-out song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, is currently on a West Coast tour in support of her 11th studio recording Memphis Blues, a nitty-gritty blues album she claims is no grand departure from, say, 1983’s She’s So Unusual.
“The blues is the basis of everything I’ve done anyway,” Lauper continues.
“So it’s not a far stretch to do the blues.”
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