Music CD - Melissa Etheridge: The Awakening

	Music CD: The Awakening Artist: Melissa Etheridge List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $2.99 Your Save: $ 10.99 ( 79% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Island
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Tracks: 1. All There Is 2. California 3. An Unexpected Rain 4. Message To Myself 5. God Is In The People 6. Map Of The Stars 7. Threesome 8. All We Can Really Do 9. I've Loved You Before 10. A Simple Love 11. Heroes And Friends 12. The Kingdom Of Heaven 13. Open Your Mind 14. The Universe Listened 15. Imagine That 16. What Happens Tomorrow
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517394148 Label: Island Manufacturer: Island Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Island Release Date: 2007-09-25 Studio: Island
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Review Comment: Nice music with a wonderful message. Easy to listen too and very meaningful content for those on life's journey! Customer Rating: Summary: GREAT JOB MELISSA! Comment: I just listened to it from start to finished and LOVED it! Keep it up. Can't wait to see you in concert! Customer Rating: Summary: I'd plug in my guitar and I'd try to sing the truth Comment: Melissa Etheridge's first complete album since overcoming cancer is one heavy affair. It is direct, forceful and straightforward, reflecting -- as she puts it in the liner notes -- a personal "Awakening." The whole CD is played out as an old fashioned concept album, meant to be listened to as a piece. Little interludes connect songs, there's a prologue ("All There Is"), reflections of the past ("An Unexpected Rain") and the confrontations of the present (the anti-war "Imagine That"). While they are a fair distance apart, Melissa's CD reminds me of Marc Cohn's Join the Parade, where each artist returned from a life changing near-tragedy (in Cohn's case, getting shot in the head by a carjacker) with a new found appreciation for living. When Cohn's politics bit down on Katrina and the administration's paltry response, Melissa takes aim at ignorance and intolerance the same administration fosters. The most powerful song here, "The Kingdom of Heaven" is a direct assault on idiots like Fred Phelps, comparing them to jihadis who strap on the suicide belts while hating in the name of a god. When she croons (in "California") 'I am ALMOST free,' it is just as much a political statement as it is an affirmation of survival from the cancers. The forthrightness of "The Awakening" is also what hinders it. With only 12 proper songs here, the sameness of some of the songs gets tedious at times. And a couple more hooky rockers like "Threesome" or "Message to Myself" might have given the CD a little more kick. It may be her most personal CD, but it lacks the pumping of her best work (Yes I Am and Melissa Etheridge). But then again, the soaring finale of "The Awakening: What Happens Tomorrow" may just bring a tear to your eye. A touch folksier and mellow than her albums prior, "The Awakening" brims with the subtle power of rediscovery, and is all the better for it. Customer Rating: Summary: Melissa Comment: Love Love Love One of Melissa's Best. Welcome back Melissa I missed you. Your CD is very uplifting to me. Customer Rating: Summary: The Awakening Comment: Quite a departure from her usual style of music but i found it very enjoyable. A pleasure to listen. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: On September 25th, 2007, Melissa will release her 9th studio album, THE AWAKENING. It has been described as a collection of powerful and playful yet confessional and engaging songs that are personal as well as universal. THE AWAKENING was co-produced with David Cole and recorded with her band: bassist Mark Browne, drummer Mauricio `Fritz' Lewak, and guitarist Philip Sayce. Etheridge acknowledges that her 2004 breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment brought new perspective to her life and achievements and freed her to be so open on this album.