A New Thought for Christmas (CD & DVD)

Originally issued on CD in 2008, A NEW THOUGHT FOR CHRISTMAS will now be re-launched as a two-disc set - with a bonus live DVD of Melissa and her band performing all the songs from the album. A NEW THOUGHT FOR CHRISTMAS: DELUXE EDITION will arrive in the physical and digital marketplace October 27th on Island Records.

Melissa Etheridge has been a core Island Records artist since the release of her critically-acclaimed eponymous RIAA double-platinum debut album of 1988. For several years, Melissa's popularity built around such memorable songs as "Bring Me Some Water" (from her debut), "No Souvenirs" (from 1989's 1989's Brave And Crazy) and "Ain't It Heavy" (from 1992's Never Enough), for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal.

Melissa hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, 1993's Yes I Am, featuring the massive hits "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought her second Grammy. The album went six times platinum and spent more than two and a half years on the album chart. In 1995, she issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret (#6 on the Billboard Top 200), which included the hit single, "I Want to Come Over." Her astounding success led Melissa to receive the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996, and the Academy Awardİ for Best Original Song for "I Need To Wake Up" in 2007.

Melissa has made a number of high profile television and public appearances in September as ambassador for "Pinktober" 2009 Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She is currently recording a new studio album planned for release early next year.