Melissa Etheridge - Home Concert Covers, Volume 1, Los Angeles, CA, 3-14-2020 to 4-11-2020

Since the coronavirus pandemic lockdown began, Melissa Etheridge has been one of the most active with home concerts. Up until a couple of weeks ago, she did one concert a day for over 50 days! Each concert has gone from about 30 minutes up until an hour, so that's a remarkable amount of music. The vast majority of the songs she's played have been originals, but she done some covers here and there, and those have added up. I've already posted one concert here in which she did nothing but Bruce Springsteen cover. Here's this album:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/04/melissa-etheridge-bruce-springsteen.html

I've also posted another concert in which she played her best known original songs. You can get that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/05/melissa-etheridge-from-my-home-to-yours.html

But now, I want to go through the rest of her home concerts and post the other covers she's done. I'm focusing on the covers because when it comes to originals you can find those on her albums, but the vast majority of these covers have never been officially released by her. Also, they should be of interest to anyone who likes the kind of music I post here and aren't Melissa Etheridge fans specifically. She has an excellent, distinctive voice, and she's also surprisingly talented on multiple instruments. She plays all the instruments on her home concerts, including drums and electric guitar solos.

It turns out that Etheridge has been very talkative during these home concerts. Oftentimes, there's more talking than songs. I've cut her comments way down, eliminating anything except comments directly relevant to the next song she's playing or the musician who did it. Even then though, she sometimes talks for five minutes or longer before getting to the next song. Personally, I like her comments, but it might be too much for some people, especially when it comes to repeat listening.

As a result, for this album and future albums in this series, I've created two versions. One includes the between song banter and the other does not. In this case, the version with the talking is an hour and 16 minutes long, and the version containing just the songs is 47 minutes long. I've made the versions with talking longer than usual so the versions without will still be long enough for a typical album.

The songs are presented in chronological order of the dates of her home concerts. Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Refugee - Tom Petty
02 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers
03 The Weakness in Me - Joan Armatrading
04 Stay with Me - Faces
05 Breathe - Greenwheel
06 Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
07 Angel from Montgomery - John Prine / Bonnie Raitt
08 Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
09 Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin
10 Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson / Janis Joplin
11 Piece of My Heart - Emma Franklin / Janis Joplin

Here's the usual song list for the version with the talking:

01 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
02 Refugee (Melissa Etheridge)
03 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
04 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Melissa Etheridge)
05 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
06 The Weakness in Me (Melissa Etheridge)
07 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
08 Stay with Me (Melissa Etheridge)
09 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
10 Breathe (Melissa Etheridge)
11 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
12 Ain’t No Sunshine (Melissa Etheridge)
13 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
14 Angel from Montgomery (Melissa Etheridge)
15 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
16 Mercedes Benz (Melissa Etheridge)
17 Intro to Get It While You Can (Melissa Etheridge)
18 Get It While You Can (Melissa Etheridge)
19 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
20 Me and Bobby McGee (Melissa Etheridge)
21 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
22 Piece of My Heart (Melissa Etheridge)

Here's the music-only song list:

01 Refugee (Melissa Etheridge)
02 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Melissa Etheridge)
03 The Weakness in Me (Melissa Etheridge)
04 Stay with Me (Melissa Etheridge)
05 Breathe (Melissa Etheridge)
06 Ain’t No Sunshine (Melissa Etheridge)
07 Angel from Montgomery (Melissa Etheridge)
08 Mercedes Benz (Melissa Etheridge)
09 Get It While You Can (Melissa Etheridge)
10 Me and Bobby McGee (Melissa Etheridge)
11 Piece of My Heart (Melissa Etheridge)

Music plus talking:

https://www.upload.ee/files/15289228/MelissaE_2020a_HomeConcrtCovrsVolume1LsAngelesCA__3-14-2020_to_4-11-2020_atse.zip.html

Music only:

https://www.upload.ee/files/15289352/MelissaE_2020a_HomeConcrtCovrsVolume1LsAngelesCA__3-14-2020_to_Music_Only.zip.html

I wanted to start this series with a close-up of Etheridge's face. This is from a public event in early 2000, before the pandemic began.