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In House With Melissa Etheridge: Rock Icon Finally Feels Self-Confident (VIDEO)

Melissa Etheridge, 4th Street Feeling interviewGino DePinto, AOL

At 51, Melissa Etheridge is finally coming into her own. Despite an amazing career that's landed her Platinum-selling albums, two Grammys and an Oscar, she says her latest LP, 4th Street Feeling, is the first where she really feels validated by her work.

"It's funny to say that even after 25 years one can still do what they do even though they do it in front of millions of people and still not feel the self-esteem from it," she tells Spinner, sitting on a leather couch in our New York office. "And when I finallay lined up with myself and my own self-confidence, then it's exciting to go in to play. I'm playing the guitar better than I've ever played because I'm telling myself that I'm playing guitar better than I've ever played."

Check out our exclusive video below to find out more about the album, which is based on Etheridge's upbringing in Kansas and her start as a singer-songwriter "when everything I owned I could put in my car." 4th Street Feeling is out now via Island Records.


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