The Soundtrack Of My Life
Sep 14, 2021
3 minutes
Interview: Polly Glass
“Joan Armatrading had a way of crafting a song that surprised you. She broke the rules.”
“I think good music is good music,” Melissa Etheridge says with a shrug, reflecting on the mixture that makes up her ‘Soundtrack…’ spread. “So I don’t cut myself off from anything.”
Having cut her teeth performing in places including prisons and retirement homes as a youngster in Leavenworth, Kansas, Etheridge made her name in the 80s in LA’s women’s bars. A unique blend of heartland rock, roots, folk and gay rights activism
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