Melissa Ferrick
Re-Releases Acclaimed 1998 album, Everything I Need on Kill Rock Stars
Pioneering Queer Indie Artist
Revisits a seminal album, complete with bonus tracks
Out today, Oct 11, 2024
“...serves up both the herky-jerky angst-rock of Alanis Morissette and Fiona Apple and the middlebrow folk-pop of Sarah McLachlan and Shawn Colvin.”
- Washington Post
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To commemorate its 25th anniversary, Melissa Ferrick has re-recorded her critically acclaimed album Everything I Need, set to be released October 11th, 2024. “Just me and the guitar using live takes and no overdubs.” Ferrick released the new single, “Black Dress” and a cover of Tegan and Sara’s “Where Does the Good Go,” both of which will be included as bonus tracks on the album.
Tegan and Sara say, “We’re honored she covered our song. We met Melissa in the early days of our career. More than once, she took us out on tour when no one else would. She taught us a lot about how to build a community, how to serve that community, and how to keep our heads down and keep working, keep playing, and keep connecting, no matter what.”
Originally released in 1998, Everything I Need stamped the end of Ferrick’s relationship with Atlantic Records and the beginning of her journey to sobriety. “It marked a time in my life when I was freed of so many boundaries - some imparted and some I hadn’t been willing to let go.” The instrumentation on her reimagining of Everything I Need is stripped bare to reveal Ferrick, her guitar, and the raw surrender of processing addiction. “Seems my words have gone down with the bottle, and fear is my only defense,” Ferrick reflects in the hauntingly beautiful “Stand Still.” The album’s title track, which gave Ferrick her first top-ten hit, still has a familiar joy, but now from someone who's seen redemption from the other side of pain. She sings, “Everything I need is right here in my hands.” But this time, she believes it.
“What surprised me the most is that the songs I liked best in ‘98 are still my favorites. The power songs have on marking time dumbfounds me. I remember writing each of them, I remember recording them, I remember the first time I heard "Everything I Need” on the radio, and I remember the first time an audience sang along.”
In 2023, Ferrick signed with Kill Rock Stars, a label that has long been emblematic of authentic storytelling and home to indie acts including Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, The Decemberists and Elliott Smith.
The re-release of Everything I Need will introduce a new generation of listeners to Ferrick’s disarming wit and raw honesty while longtime loyalists will appreciate hearing familiar favorites through the lens of a beloved artist who clawed her way to self acceptance and healing.
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East Coast Tour Dates:
OCT 06 North Haven, CT
Melissa Ferrick at Vine and Vibes Summer Concert Series
OCT 11 Saratoga Springs, NY
Melissa Ferrick with Sweet Petunia at Caffe Lena
OCT 12 Hudson, NY
Melissa Ferrick with Sweet Petunia at Park Theater
OCT 14 Boston, MA
Benefit for Reproductive right and Kamala Harris
In the Round Amanda Palmer, Gail Ann Dorsey, Melissa Ferrick, Ali McGurik.
City Winery
OCT 18 Provincetown, MA
Melissa Ferrick at Post Office Cafe
OCT 19 Newburyport, MA
Melissa Ferrick at Firehouse Center for the Arts
NOV 23 Portland, ME
Melissa Ferrick at One Longfellow Square
DEC 07 Kingston, NY
Melissa Ferrick at Unicorn Bar
DEC 27 Cambridge, MA
Melissa Ferrick at Club Passim (Two Shows)
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Sydney Christensen, Kill Rock Stars, sydney@killrockstars.com