Melissa Etheridge – The Medicine Show (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:06 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
For her 15th album, the singer-songwriter explores pain—physical and emotional—and the ways Americans medicate. It’s a call for marijuana legalization, a rallying cry against opioids and a plea for unity. On expansive rocker “Faded By Design,” the cancer survivor eschews Western medicine for self-care: “Don’t call the doctor / The cure is in my mind.” The spare and lovely “Here Comes the Pain” empathizes the root cause of addiction, while “Woman Like You” explores feminism and changing norms against a swirling, McCartney-esque melody. Etheridge has said that she was going for a ’90s rock sound—”moody and fierce.” With its giant grunge guitars and swooning chorus, “Shaking,” a look at collective national anxiety, hits the bulls-eye. As does the fierce, arena-rock title track which proves that Etheridge can make “e-i-e-i-oh” sound tough as nails. Even drawing courage from the survivors of a mass shooting on period-perfect power ballad “Last Hello” she never condescends. There is nothing small or shy in Etheridge’s songs, and it’s refreshing.
Tracklist:
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)
Personnel:
Melissa Etheridge, vocals, guitar
Max Hart, keyboards
Chris Chaney, bass
Victor Indrizzo, drums
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