Jay Talks To Melissa Etheridge

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Chamba Casino. I got to tell you how excited I am to talk to Melissa Etheridge today because

she's one of those artists that I have played almost my entire career. I think I played

come to my window more than anybody, but it's nice to have you in Detroit with us.

Oh, it's what a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much, Jack.

Tell me about this tour. This tour is coming out in support of my new album, Rise.

There'll be some new songs, and it will be my first time experiencing these songs with

people. I've also changed up my show a little bit, so it's going to be brand new. I'm going to be

just, I'm going to be kind of overly amped, I think, because I'm so excited to bring

the new show and the new songs on tour. Detroit is the very first one. We're going to rehearse

the night before, and then we're going to kill it that next day, and I'm going to be over

the top. So it's going to be a real special show. I open wonder now because with the way

music is and how it gets out to people, and with social media now and how you can connect with

fans in a way that when we think of us in the 90s was different, the fan experience must be

different. Yeah, you used to, back in the 80s and the 90s, when I would release something,

the first feedback I got from it was critics, and social media has enabled me to connect directly

with people, and that was my main focus about this new album with this new tour. I want people

to go, God, you know, I haven't seen her a while, and I saw her getting this is great, and it's

it's better than ever, and we had fun, and we heard the favorite songs, and then this new stuff,

I can't wait to listen. That's that's my hope of what I want to get from this show. How about

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I mean, how about that? How about that? How about that? How great

I'm that? It was awesome. It was better than I thought it would be, you know, I've been eligible

for over a decade, and I was like, oh, this means a lot more to me than I thought. I was really

touched, and it gives you a sense of, wow, being recognized by your peers, and it's not often you

get that sort of moment to go stop and go, oh, yeah, I did that, and they see that, and it was,

it's really nice. You probably've answered this question a million times, but I just, I think

of artists that I love seeing, I love Stevie Nicks, and I've seen Stevie Nicks from Front Road,

just in the back, for an artist like you, it's such a double question, but is that like an addiction

when you're on stage and you feel a crowd loving you? It is not a dumb question.

Okay. It is what I, I reach for every night is just, is that energy, is that connection, because

if I can, I, I know that I want to be inspiring, but the only way I can be inspiring is to be inspired.

Right. So I, it, it's my job to stay open, to come out on stage and go, oh, look at you,

you're beautiful. I can't wait to sing that song that you love from, for the last 20 years,

and you, and you're, yeah, that's my song, and that energy comes back to me, and I go, oh,

I feel that, and then it just grows. So by the end, we're all up jumping around in

dancing, and, and that's the magic, that's the alchemy that I, that I strive for. So thank you

for being a music lover. I just wish you had a few more guitars in your house.

You know, this is my work room. This is where I, where I do everything. And so I, I,

I can't help it. I've just got tons of stuff all around me. It's a mess. Oh my God. How great

to talk to you and finally get to, to meet you all these years later. But Thursday, the 26th

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this, and we're so excited to have you back in Detroit, and, and can't wait to see you. So

thanks for being all of us today. Looking forward to it. Come on out and listen to some music.

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