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Melissa Etheridge (CD)

By: Melissa Etheridge (Artist)

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Melissa Etheridge Artist Snapshot:

Melissa Etheridge made waves in 1988 as one of the few female rockers on the scene; in 1993, she made headlines by coming out as a lesbian. Etheridge's confessional lyrics and raspy voice earned her comparisons to Springsteen and Janis Joplin; she broke through to a pop audience with 1994's YES I AM, featuring the melodic pop of "Come To My Window" and the anthemic rock of "I'm the Only One," each of which spent over a half a year on Billboard's pop charts. In 2000, she revealed that her two children (with her then-partner Julie Cypher) had been fathered with sperm donated by rock legend David Crosby.

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DISC 1 for Melissa Etheridge (CD) Album By Melissa Etheridge (Artist)
1   Similar Features
2   Chrome Plated Heart
3   Like The Way I Do
4   Precious Pain
5   Don't You Need
6   Late September Dogs, The
7   Occasionally
8   Watching You
9   Bring Me Some Water
10   I Want You
 

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Uncut (11/03, p.136) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Her ragged, garnet-hued rasp maintains an almost-painful level of intensity throughout..."

Title Note

Personnel: Melissa Etheridge (vocals, acoustic guitar); Waddy Wachtel, Johnny Lee Schell (guitar); Scott Thurston, Wally Badarou (keyboards); Kevin McCormick (bass); Craig Krampf (drums, percussion).

Producers: Craig Krampf, Kevin McCormick, Melissa Etheridge, Niko Bolas.

Recorded at Cherokee Studio I, Hollywood, California from October 19-23, 1987.

Although Melissa Etheridge was immediately compared to Tracy Chapman when the two singer-songwriters released their self-titled debut albums in the same year, they in fact shared little other than gender. Kansas native Etheridge is a heartland rocker in the mold of Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, or Tom Petty, blessed with a powerfully soulful voice that compares favorably to both Janis Joplin and, in her quieter moments, Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies. On this album, Etheridge's songwriting talents are perhaps not quite as consistent as they would soon become, but producer Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Warren Zevon, etc.) gives the album a clean, muscular, and guitar-oriented sound that seems much less dated than many other albums from the period, and with the startlingly passionate "Bring Me Some Water" alone, Etheridge made her first claim as one of the pre-eminent singer/songwriters of her time.

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