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Whistle Stopper - The Awakening
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Manufacturer: Island
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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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Summary: The Awakening
Comment: After seeing her last night in lowell mass I had to write something on this great piece of work! This is very differant than lucky which is a great piece on its own! This cd has a big kick to it with guitar solos not heard on her other releases and yes it rocks!! If you get a chance to see her do so you will not be disapointed!! She plays a long set. This is a very very good cd! What is unexpected on this is I was hoping for a Lucky part 2 but this is very differant in it has like an alternative edge to it! Its her hardest rocking release yet! We should all thank her for this one!!
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Summary: She never lets me down
Comment: I bought this without ever listening to any songs and I'm glad I did. Miss Etheridge has never let me down. I love this one as much as any others. You can feel the happiness (I believe these songs were inspired by her new wife Tammy) and the uplifting outlook she came upon. She wears her heart on her sleeve, stages of her life are reflected in her music, and that is the major part of her appeal to me.
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Summary: Review
Comment: Nice music with a wonderful message. Easy to listen too and very meaningful content for those on life's journey!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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