Melissa Etheridge's earliest hits — "Bring Me Some Water", "Like The Way I Do" — are in for a treat with her latest album, One Way Out, a new collection of previously unreleased tracks written by the singer in the late '80s and early '90s.
Back then, some of the feminist and more queer themes in the songs were "a little overly powerful," she says, laughing. "Now I look at these songs and go, 'Oh, I mean, they're innocent now.'"While Etheridge's lyrics have always included nods to her sexuality, she's purposely stayed clear of too many gendered references in her lyrics.