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Melissa Etheridge Explains How Johnny Cash Inspired Her to Perform in Prisons: 'I Wasn't Afraid' (Exclusive)
Melissa Etheridge performs in a prison in her native Kansas in the docuseries Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken.
Melissa Etheridge still remembers the electricity in the air when country legend Johnny Cash paid her Kansas hometown a visit in 1970 to perform at the local prison. And so I always knew that I wanted to get back and do that sort of Johnny Cash thing, the performance for people that really need it, who probably haven’t had entertainment in months, years, decades, and just how healing that can be,” she says. In an emotional scene, Etheridge even performs an original song that she wrote in honor of the women, which features the powerful call and response lyric, “I’m not broken.”
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