Tuskegee (album)
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| Studio album by Lionel Richie | ||||
| Released | March 5, 2012 | |||
| Genre | Country, R&B, pop | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Lionel Richie (also exec.), Dann Huff, Nathan Chapman, Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney, Tony Brown, Jason Owen (exec.), Dirk Vanoucek (assoc.) | |||
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| Metacritic | (74/100) |
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| About.com |   |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC Music | (favorable) |
| The Boston Globe | (favorable) |
| Country Weekly | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The New York Times | (favorable) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Taste of Country | |
Tuskegee is the tenth studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on March 5, 2012 through Mercury Records. The album consists entirely of reinterpretations of previously released songs by Richie, each performed with a different guest artist. It became Richie's third number-one album on the Billboard 200 and his first since Dancing on the Ceiling in 1986. Tuskegee also became Richie's first album to sell more than a million copies in the United States since Dancing on the Ceiling.
The album is named after the Alabama city where Richie was born and later completed his undergraduate degree at Tuskegee Institute.
"Endless Love" featuring Shania Twain was released as the album's lead single in the United States on February 7, 2012. In Denmark, "Say You, Say Me" featuring Rasmus Seebach was released as the first single on February 22, 2012.
Four promotion singles — "Easy" featuring Willie Nelson, "Just for You" featuring Billy Currington, "Stuck on You" featuring Darius Rucker, and "Hello" featuring Jennifer Nettles — were released in advance of the album.
Although it was not released as a single, "Deep River Woman" featuring Little Big Town, charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart from unsolicited airplay and reached a peak of number 60. It was also the only song from the album to make an appearance on the chart, though the album's lead single, "Endless Love," was a Top 20 hit on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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