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Rise (Melissa Etheridge album)

Rise is the seventeenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge. It was released on March 27, 2026, under Etheridge's own label MLE Music with distribution by Sun Label Group.

Background

Rise is Etheridge's first body of work consisting of all new material since her fifteenth studio album The Medicine Show (2019), and her first studio album overall since One Way Out (2021); it was co-produced by Etheridge and Shooter Jennings and recorded at Sunset Studios in Los Angeles.

Promotion

The album's lead single, "Don't You Want a Woman", was released on October 10, 2025; the song also serves as part of a partnership between Etheridge and the Kansas City Current women's soccer team. The second single, "Matches", was released on December 12, 2025 in tandem with the album announcement. The third single, "Bein' Alive", was released on February 25, 2026. A music video for the song was released the same day.

Etheridge will embark on The Rise Tour in promotion of the album, beginning March 26, 2026 in Detroit and concluding on May 9, 2026, in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

  • Melissa Etheridge – vocals, guitar, harmonica, production
  • Shooter Jennings – synthesizer, piano, production, mixing on all tracks except "The Other Side of Blue", background vocals on "Rise" and "Davina"
  • David Spreng – Mellotron, mixing, recording
  • Zack Zajdel – engineering assistance
  • Nate Haessly – engineering assistance
  • Pete Lyman – mastering
  • Daniel Bacigalupi – mastering assistance
  • Max Hart – guitar, organ, keyboard, piano, pedal steel, lap steel, slide guitar
  • Eric Gardner – drums
  • Erik Kertes – bass
  • Chris Stapleton – vocals and guitar on "The Other Side of Blue"
  • Jon Arckey – background vocals on "Rise" and "Davina"
  • Shelly Fairchild – background vocals on "Rise" and "Davina"
  • Candice Lawler – creative direction, photography
  • Julian Gross – design
  • Chloe Badawy – styling
  • Jill Colwell – hair and makeup

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