Melissa Etheridge

"The reason I put 'Lucky' as the first track," Melissa Etheridge says of the title cut to her eighth album, " is also the reason I called the album Lucky: I don't want anybody to have any false ideas that this album is not an up album." She also could have called it When You Find The One after its closing track, a lullaby-like paean to a new love. Of the album's 13 new songs, nine of them bask in the glory of being madly, deeply and hopelessly in love, injecting Lucky with a lightheartedness not found on Etheridge's last outing, 2001's Skin, which narrated the dissolution of a very public 12-year relationship.