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Release Date: Sep 25, 2007; Lead Performance: Melissa Etheridge; Genre: Rock
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Last year, Melissa theridge reversed her slide into adult-contemporary
irrelevance with ''I Need to Wake Up,'' the Oscar-winning environmental
anthem she contributed to An Inconvenient Truth. Her ninth LP's title (The Awakening) sounds like a promise to expand on that MO, yet the first few tracks
find Etheridge wasting her weather-beaten voice on bland lyrics and
arrangements. Thankfully, she redeems the disc with a closing clutch of
passionate antiwar declarations (''The Kingdom of Heaven,'' ''Imagine
That'') that let her play her firebrand persona to the hilt. B-
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Posted Sep 21, 2007
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