Cyndi Lauper: rhapsody in blues | Alfred Hickling

Cyndi Lauper doesn't just want to have fun these days: her new album uses the blues to explore our troubled times. She talks to Alfred HicklingThe ukulele is not an instrument you normally associate with the blues; nor is the blues section where you'd expect to find a Cyndi Lauper CD. Lauper's 11th studio album, Memphis Blues, combines both. "I found a really sick ukulele in a novelty shop with a metal top," she says, in her almost comically caustic Bronx-Sicilian drawl. "I tuned it to a chord ...

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