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Melissa Etheridge and Maggie Rose discuss their music careers and new albums.

On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast, we’ve got a pair of powerful songwriters—one you surely know, one you may not yet—who recently toured together, and who both have great new albums out. It’s Melissa Etheridge and Maggie Rose. I’ll try and fail to do justice to Melissa Etheridge’s incredible life and career in one short paragraph: She’s sold millions of records, written and performed massive hit songs, won Grammys and an Oscar, beat cancer, written books, done a one-woman show about her life, been a loud and strong advocate for gay rights since well before that was a mainstream thing to do, and now she’s started a foundation to investigate alternate therapies for drug addiction after losing a son to opioids in 2020. She also managed to write and release her seventeenth studio album over the past couple of years: Rise was co-produced with Shooter Jennings and it’s a bit more rock-leaning than usual. Etheridge is doing a big co-headline tour with Wynonna Judd, and the other half of today’s conversation, Maggie Rose, is opening those shows—and as you’ll hear in this chat, having a ball. Though she started her career in Nashville, Rose has always pushed at the boundaries of what might…

People in this episode

Host: Talkhouse

Guests: Melissa Etheridge, Maggie Rose

Topics covered

• songwriting
• music industry
• new albums
• advocacy
• touring

Keywords

• Melissa Etheridge
• Maggie Rose
• new album
• songwriter
• tour

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Rise, Half Moon

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