SKIN
Skin is the seventh album by singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, released in 2001. During the singer’s split from Julie Cypher, her companion of 12 years, Melissa Etheridge retreated to her home studio to pen songs about her searing pain and confusion. Skin peels back layers of Etheridge’s pain and addresses her personal melodrama, as she takes the listener through the stages of grief and recovery. “Heal Me” features background vocals by Laura Dern and Meg Ryan. Etheridge plays almost all the instruments and penned all the songs. (More from Wikipedia)
Melissa Etheridge’s 2001 album Skin was written after the breakup of her longtime relationship with filmmaker Julie Cypher that included two children fathered by David Crosby via artificial insemination; writing for Allmusic, Kerry L. Smith says of this album: “If ever there was a perfect breakup album, this is it.”
(January 2014)
