This is a review of the Cyndi Lauper/ Charlie Musselwhite concert on September 20th, 2016. It was a sold out show at The Depot in downtown Salt Lake City. Lauper is supporting her latest CD "Detour", which truly is a detour from the music she's best known for. "Detour" is a throwback to classic country songs. She reimagines the songs of Patsy Cline, Patsy Montana, Willie Nelson and Wanda Jackson. Lauper and her excellent band add a modern shine to these classics. They played many songs from her current CD, as well as most of the classics you'd expect. I'd urge you to go see Miss Lauper and her great band.
The setlist:
This is my favorite song from "Detour", 1) "Funnel of Love":
Here's Wanda Jackson's original:
2) "She Bop":
3) "Heartaches By The Number":
4) "Just Your Fool" (featuring Charlie Musselwhite):
5) "I Drove All Night":
One of the greatest songs of all-time, but Skeeter Davis' version will never be topped. Lauper's version is surprisingly bland. 6) "End of The World"
The ultimate version:
7) "Walkin' After Midnight"
8) "A Cowboy's Sweetheart":
One of Miss Lauper's lesser known songs, from 1996's "Sisters of Avalon" 9) "You Don't Know":
This is a Prince song, which Miss Lauper recorded way back on "She's So Unusual". She shared memories of Prince coming and seeing her in concert and other memories of the legendary funk master. 10) "When You Were Mine"
Band Introductions
11) "Money Changes Everything":
Encore
12) "Misty Blue"
13) "Kindred Spirit/ Time After Time":
The song that everyone came to hear, especially the two obnoxious women to my right. They were also screaming "sing something we know". She introduced this song with a terrible country twang start, thankfully she was just teasing into. She then broke into the actual version. Although the live version is a bit scattered. 14) "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
Second Encore
15) "True Colors":
Overall the concert was very good. and she's still a great performer. Her voice still sounds great and is in fine form. She still retains a youthful mindset, although colored by her experiences. She swears like a sailor, says exactly what she thinks and talks in a stream of consciousness way. On this night Lauper was in a chatty mood, besides Prince she also talked about Madonna, David Bowie, the television shows she watched with her Nana and urged us to vote several times. Although she's a well known Donald Trump hater- who in their right mind isn't?- she never mentioned him.
Although her setlist was perfectly fine, maybe replacing/adding to some of the lesser known/ twangy songs would have helped overall. These are just suggestions. I would never try to alter an artist's self expression, like some of the idiot record company people she had to deal with back in the day. All I'm saying is it would have been good to hear some of these songs as well:
"Change of Heart":
"All Through The Night":
She mentioned her first band The Blue Angels, her first band, but she also could have played their amazing "I'm Gonna Be Strong":
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