Melissa Etheridge

"Oh, this one's gonna hurt like hell," sings Melissa Etheridge in "Lover Please," the opening
cut on her seventh studio album. Skin is a bare-it-all song cycle about a breakup,
presumably rooted in her recent uncoupling from partner Julie Cypher. But the particulars
of her situation do not overshadow the universality of her message: To wit, love hurts.
Etheridge's voice heats up to its familiar boil as she vents, demands, rages and be... More >