Cyndi Lauper's 'Body Acoustic' Reinvents Hits
Cyndi Lauper revisits her career highlights in a new setting on "The
Body
Acoustic," her ninth studio album, due Nov. 8 via Daylight/Epic. She
enlists
the help of Sarah McLachlan, Shaggy, Jeff Beck, Ani DiFranco, Kelly
Osbourne, Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara and Vivian Green in
reinventing
the familiar songs, and also offers two new originals.
The album was produced by Lauper with the help of Rich Chertoff, who
produced her smash 1984 debut "She's So Unusual," and William
Wittman, who
was behind the boards for her 2004 collection of standards, "At Last."
McLachlan joins Lauper on stripped-down acoustic remakes of "Time
After
Time," from "She's So Unusual," and "Water's Edge," reclaimed from
the 2002
EP "Shine." Osbourne appears on a new version of Lauper's inaugural
hit,
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," a track that reached No. 2 on the
Billboard Hot
100 in '84.
"Money Changes Everything" and "All Through the Night," both of which
also
appear on the first album, are revived with the help of Lazzara and
Shaggy,
respectively. Green and DiFranco join in on the title track of 1997's
"Sister's of Avalon," while Lauper goes it alone on new renditions of
"Shine," "Fearless," "She Bop" and "True Colors."
Green is also tapped to contribute to the new song "I'll Be Your
River,"
while Beck adds his guitar work to "Above the Clouds."
After an extensive tour in support of "At Last," Lauper has made only
sporadic appearances in 2005. The sole upcoming show on her schedule
comes
Sept. 24 as part of WBMX Boston's Mixfest Sept. 24 with Sheryl Crow,
Gavin
DeGraw and Howie Day.
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