The Other Side

An Interview with singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick

There is a hum and buzz circling through the rafters of the packaged room. It is the eve of my 35th birthday. I’m in the iconic Iron Horse music venue in Northampton, Massachusetts waiting for Melissa Ferrick’s show to begin. It will be one of her last shows for the next few years as she enters Harvard University Graduate School of Education and moves on to the next phase of her career. A few weeks previous, I had an opportunity to speak with her about her career as an indie artist. Ferrick started her career with Atlantic Records in 1992 at the age of 21, after opening up for Morrissey in the US and UK, she released her debut and sophomore albums on Atlantic before moving on to Independent label W.A.R. Records between 1996-1999. In 2000, Ferrick launched her nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records; her publishing catalog is represented worldwide by Raleigh Music Group. Over the last 24 years, Melissa has released over 17 albums.

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