What's the world coming to? Cyndi Lauper released an album of blues songs this year which, honestly, ain't half bad. Tom Petty's new disc offers several songs with a distinct blues-rock slant, while 1970s pop-rock chart-topper Steve Miller made a return to his blues roots with his 2010 album, Bingo! Actor Hugh Laurie, the curmudgeonly Dr. House from the Fox television series House, is said to be making a blues album. Now Sir Elton John is saying that, at age 63, he's too old to sing pop songs anymore, so he's going to devote the rest of his career singing the blues....