Melissa Etheridge
Sep 10, 2012
It's been seven years since Melissa Etheridge delivered a powerful rendition of "Piece of My Heart" with Joss Stone in a tribute to Janis Joplin at the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards. It had marked Etheridge's first live performance since being diagnosed with breast cancer. Though she continues to win that battle, the disease has left a lasting mark on her music and on a career that spans more than 25 years.
After the introspective Fearless in 2010, Etheridge now returns with 4th Street Feeling, an album that takes her back to her roots, both in terms of inspiration and in sound. It finds her revisiting the creative process of her formative years with energetic rock songs as well as presenting a more mature and rootsy side of her musical pallet.
Produced by Jacquire King (with two songs produced by Steven Booker), and co-produced by Etheridge, 4th Street Feeling (her 12th studio album) is arguably her most immediate, heartfelt and musically resonant release. It's also the first album on which she has taken the lead guitar role, playing all the guitar parts.
In addition to the first single, "Falling Up," check out "A Disaster," "Kansas City," "Shadow of a Black Crow," "Be Real" and "Be Real."
"Let me do the best of what I do best was really my focus on this album," said Etheridge. "I don't have to sound like anybody else, look like anybody else or write like anybody else."
Etheridge recently did an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington D.C. will honor her with their Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts at this year's event on November 4th. In 2011 she made her Broadway debut as St. Jimmy in Green Day's rock opera, American Idiot. Etheridge has also received a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
She is currently on tour:
- 9/22 AARP Benefit Concert (with Gladys Knight & Stevie Nicks), New Orleans
- 10/3 Fox Theater, Oakland
- 10/5 Ovations LIVE! Showroom Theatre, Chandler AZ
- 10/6 The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
- 10/7 Long Beach Terrace Theatre, Long Beach CA
- 10/9 Paramount Theatre, Denver
- 10/11 The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tulsa
- 10/12 Moody Theater (Austin City Limits Live), Austin
- 10/13 Majestic Theatre, Dallas
- 10/19 Caesars Circus Maximus, Atlantic City NJ
- 10/20 State Theatre, New Brunswick NJ
- 10/21 Orpheum Theatre, Boston
- 10/23 Shea's Performing Arts Center, Buffalo
- 10/24 The Hammerstein @ Manhattan Center, New York
- 10/26 Palace Theatre, Albany
- 10/27 NYCB Theatre, Westbury NY
- 10/28 Auditorium Theatre, Rochester NY
- 11/02 The Music Center @ Strathmor, N. Bethesda MD
- 11/03 Strand Theatre, York PA
- 10/06 Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montreal
- 11/07 Massey Hall, Toronto
- 11/09 The Palladium, Carmel IN
- 11/10 The Chicago Theatre, Chicago
- 11/12 Symphony Hall, Atlanta
- 11/13 Palace Theatre, Louisville
For more information, visit www.melissaetheridge.com