Melissa Ferrick

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Melissa Ferrick is a singer-songwriter. Born in 1970, raised in Ipswich, Massachusetts and educated at the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.<p>She began her career singing and playing in coffeehouses in the Boston area. She received a great deal of publicity in 1991 when she replaced, at the last minute, the opening act for the singer Morrissey on tour; her emergence onto the national scene was around 1993, when she released her first studio album Massive Blur under a contract with Atlantic Records.<p>Ferrick's relationship with Atlantic was rocky. She was dropped, when her first two albums did not meet the producers financial expectations. Nonetheless "Willing To Wait" her second album is still highly appraised by her fans. A few years later, in 1996, she -- in her words -- "bottomed out", drinking and "taking a bunch of pills." She soon returned to music, however, joining up with the indie label What Are Records?, which gave her a much greater degree of...