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"Sometimes its songs are a gentle caress, sometimes its songs are a maelstrom": Melissa Etheridge mixes it up on Brave And Crazy

Melissa Etheridge: Brave And Crazy cover art.
Melissa Etheridge: Brave And Crazy
(Image credit: Island Records)

No Souvenirs
Brave and Crazy
You Used to Love to Dance
The Angels
You Can Sleep While I Drive
Testify
Let Me Go
My Back Door
Skin Deep
Royal Station 4/16

Melissa Etheridge's Brave and Crazy, released in 1989, continued the success of her self-titled debut, scoring Etheridge a second Grammy nomination and solidifying her status as one to watch. The phrase "female Bruce Springsteen" was bandied around with carefree abandon, but the comparison wasn't without merit, with No Souvenirs tipping a lyrical hat to The Boss's Dancing In The Dark, and a shared focus on themes of alienation and escape.

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