Fearless Love

Album Info:

Album available Spring of 2010.

Listen to the title track, "Fearless Love" now.
Single available for purchase Feb 2, 2010.

"Fearless Love," a bold and soaring declaration for living - and loving - to the fullest, is the first single from Melissa Etheridge's forthcoming album of the same title.

Forged from Etheridge's experiences as a musical and cultural activist, breast cancer survivor, parent, spouse and spiritual seeker, "Fearless Love" speaks to an uncompromising yearning.

I need a fearless love, I won't settle for anything less, she sings in the bracing chorus, setting the tone for the album.

"Love has to be fearless," Etheridge explains. "We need to have fearless love. That's where I am right now."

The single and album were produced by John Shanks, whose first album production was Etheridge's 1999 Breakdown. Since that collaboration he has risen to the top ranks of rock and pop producers with credits including Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette and Bon Jovi, winning the 2005 Producer of the Year Grammy Award. "Fearless Love" spotlights the album's solid rock foundation with the core band of Etheridge on acoustic guitar, Shanks providing imaginative lead guitar, color-filled keyboards from Jamie Muhoberac and the dynamic anchor of bassist Sean Hurley and drummer Victor Indrizzo.

Fearless Love, her triumphant tenth album, expands on the multiple strengths that have made Etheridge one of the most beloved figures in modern rock. It follows her revealing 2007 set The Awakening with a rousing tone at once tough and tender, as only Etheridge can be. It's that force of presence that has earned her, among other accolades, the 2007 Academy Award for best original song ("I Need to Wake Up" from the documentary An Inconvenient Truth) and two Grammy Awards.