Melissa Etheridge reflects on her concert at a women's prison on this episode of Billboard's 'Behind the Setlist' podcast.
,” she says. “I rarely do ‘Unexpected Rain.’ I rarely do ‘The Shadow of a Black Crow,’ which is about addiction. I rarely do ‘Into the Dark.’ I rarely do ‘Love Will Live.’ They were very, very specific to what I wanted to speak about.” . The two-time Grammy winner says she had wanted to perform at a prison for decades. Etheridge grew up in Leavenworth, Kans., within eyeshot of the prison where country great Johnny Cash performed in 1970.
The idea came up again when she switched management a decade ago. About five years ago, her management team began reaching out to the penitentiary to see if a performance would be feasible. Once the idea was approved and Etheridge was given a green light by Paramount, she brought on board a production company, Shark Pig.
The Topeka concert included many deep cuts because the filmmakers asked Etheridge to choose songs based on themes — such as trauma, motherhood, hope, redemption and consequence — that the series would address. At the concert, Etheridge introduced each song by talking about the specific themes. The often racuous show included many of Etheridge’s better known songs, too. The show opens with “American Girl,” a non-single track from her 1993 albumYes, I Amalso captures Etheridge’s process for writing a song specifically for the concert. “A Burning Woman” was informed by her correspondence and conversation with five of the inmates. The women opened up about their circumstances, how they ended up in prison and their lives during incarceration.
“We sat down in the prison library, and we all spoke,” Etheridge recalls, “and just hearing their stories, laughing, talking, crying, whatever you know we did, was so powerful to me that it couldn’t help but humanize them, because they are human.”Snoop Dogg Had to Drop a Dressage Freestyle For Martha Stewart While Watching a Horse Named Gin & JuiceTaylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for 13th Week.
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