Rise Melissa Etheridge

• 1 Bein' Alive 03:47
• 2 Matches 04:54
• 3 Rise 04:20
• 4 Don't You Want A Woman 03:38
• 5 The Other Side Of Blue 04:02
• 6 If You Ever Leave Me 03:57
• 7 Davina 03:26
• 8 To Be A Woman 04:25
• 9 Tomboy 03:45
• 10 Call You 03:33
• 11 More Love 04:19
• Total Runtime 44:06

Info for Rise

Global rockstar and cultural icon Melissa Etheridge presents her new album Rise on Sun Records. The project contains heartfelt and triumphant songs produced by Shooter Jennings and Melissa Etheridge at Sunset Sound in LA. Eleven brand new songs include Don't You Want a Woman, Bein Alive, Call You, and The Other Side of Blue, co-written by and featuring Chris Stapleton. As Melissa sagely notes, sometimes you're gonna taste the dirt, but then you're gonna rise.

"RISE is an inspiring collection of songs that celebrate being a woman, with all its ups and downs. Carrying a sense of confidence and hope, there are also feelings of pain and heartache. An emotional rollercoaster, it inevitably conveys empowering messages that nourish the soul." (Cryptic Rock, 5 out of 5 stars)

Melissa Etheridge, vocals, guitar, harmonica, production
Shooter Jennings, synthesizer, piano, background vocals (tracks 3, 7)
David Spreng, Mellotron, mixing, recording
Max Hart, guitar, organ, keyboard, piano, pedal steel, lap steel, slide guitar
Eric Gardner, drums
Erik Kertes, bass
Chris Stapleton, vocals and guitar (track 5)
Jon Arckey, background vocals (tracks 3, 7)
Shelly Fairchild, background vocals (tracks 3, 7)

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.

This album contains no booklet.