The Medicine Show Melissa Etheridge

• 1 The Medicine Show 02:27
• 2 Wild And Lonely 04:32
• 3 Shaking 03:05
• 4 Woman Like You 03:49
• 5 Faded By Design 03:37
• 6 I Know You 04:44
• 7 This Human Chain 03:51
• 8 Love Will Live 04:09
• 9 Here Comes The Pain 03:56
• 10 Suede 03:58
• 11 Last Hello 03:58
• Total Runtime 42:06

Info for The Medicine Show

The Medicine Show is Melissa Etheridge’s fifteenth studio record and her first original material since her 2014 album, This Is ME, following her critically acclaimed Stax tribute record, MEmphis Rock and Soul. Produced by longtime collaborator John Shanks, The Medicine Show features some of her most honest songwriting to date, paired with beautiful instrumentation and her signature roaring guitar.

The first single from the album, "Faded By Design", was premiered by Rolling Stone who called it "a proud declaration of resilience," and noted the "folky acoustic-guitar riff...builds to an upbeat chorus."

Describing the rocking, anthemic new track and album, Melissa explains, "The sound of the song and the whole record is purposefully aimed at that 90’s rock sound. When rock was moody and fierce. ‘Faded’ is spot on a Melissa Etheridge song. You know it from the first few notes. I wrote it on my twelve string and kept it true to that sound."

Melissa Etheridge, vocals, guitar
Max Hart, keyboards
Chris Chaney, bass
Victor Indrizzo, drums

Melissa Etheridge
is one of rock music’s great female icons. Her critically acclaimed eponymous debut album was certified double platinum. Etheridge’s popularity built around such memorable songs as “Bring Me Some Water,” “No Souvenirs” and “Ain't It Heavy” for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am, featuring the massive hits “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window,” a searing song of longing that brought her a second Grammy. The six times platinum album spent more than two and a half years on the album chart. Etheridge is also an Oscar winner for Best Original Song in 2007. In 2011 Melissa made her Broadway debut as St. Jimmy in Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot, where she replaced Billie Joe Armstrong for one week, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Etheridge is scheduled to release MEmphis Rock and Soul, a new album honoring Stax Records, in fall of 2016. She recently completed recording at Royal Studios in Memphis on what will be her first album since 2014’s critically lauded This Is M.E.

On June 20, 2016, Etheridge released a song called “Pulse.” The singer wrote the song in reaction to the mass shootings that took place in Orlando on June 12, 2016. As she told Rolling Stone, “We want to try to make sense. We want to try to heal. We want to bring some meaning, some purpose. We also want to put it down forever in history. That’s how I’m coping.” All proceeds from the sale of “Pulse” will benefit Equality Florida, the states largest LGBT civil rights organization.

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