Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled is a 2005 music album

Music Album

Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...

, released by Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

. It featured 17 tracks from her 17-year career, five of which were newly recorded. Eight of the other 12 tracks were specially remixed for this compilation.

Track listing

1. "Refugee" – 3:37 [New Track]
2. "Similar Features" – 4:44 [Remix]
3. "Like the Way I Do
   Like the Way I Do
   "Like the Way I Do" is a 1988 Melissa Etheridge song and the second single from her debut album Melissa Etheridge.-Song information:The song was actually written years before the album was recorded. Melissa Etheridge had already played it during her live concerts, where it was the first of her own...
   
   " – 5:25 [Remix]
4. "Bring Me Some Water
   Bring Me Some Water
   - Song information :Melissa Etheridge wrote the song after the initial version of her debut album was rejected by the recording company, which left her only four days to provide new material and a modified edition of the album...
   
   " – 3:54 [Remix]
5. "You Can Sleep While I Drive" – 3:15 [Remix]
6. "No Souvenirs
   No Souvenirs
   "No Souvenirs" is a 1989 song by Melissa Etheridge and the second single of her second album Brave and Crazy.-Song information :“No Souvenirs” was actually written before the first album came out but Melissa Etheridge decided to keep it back until the second album since its original intro was too...
   
   " – 4:33 [Remix]
7. "Ain't it Heavy" – 4:24 [Remix]
8. "I'm the Only One
   I'm the Only One
   "I'm the Only One" is a Melissa Etheridge song that appears on her 1993 album Yes I Am. The single itself was released in 1993, and hit number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary charts in January 1995...
   
   " – 4:16 [Edit]
9. "Come to My Window
   Come to My Window
   "Come to My Window" is a Grammy Award-winning song by Melissa Etheridge released in 1994 on her 1993 album Yes I Am. This was the first song to be released after Etheridge publicly announced her sexual orientation of being a lesbian. With the driving force of gay rights, the song gained a lot of...
   
   " – 3:35 [Single Edit]
10. "If I Wanted To" – 3:55
11. "I Want to Come Over" – 5:24 [Remix]
12. "Angels Would Fall
    Angels Would Fall
    "Angels Would Fall" is a 1999 Melissa Etheridge song and the first single of her album Breakdown.- Song information :The song was written by Melissa Etheridge with the main guitar loop contributed by John Shanks...
    
    " – 4:39 [Remix]
13. "Lucky" – 3:58
14. "Christmas in America" – 4:21 [New Track]
15. "Piece of My Heart
    Piece of My Heart
    "Piece of My Heart" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to greater mainstream attention when Big Brother and the Holding Company covered the song in 1968 and had a hit with it...
    
    " – 4:19 [New Track]
16. "This is Not Goodbye" – 3:37 [New Track]
17. "I Run for Life" – 4:21 [New Track]
18. "I Need to Wake Up
    I Need to Wake Up
    "I Need to Wake Up" is a song by Melissa Etheridge, written for the 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth. It is the first instance of a documentary film winning the Best Song category, and it notably beat three other nominated songs from the musical film Dreamgirls.Etheridge received the...
    
    " - 3:36 [New Track only on re-release]

Chart Success

The album peaked at #14 on the Billboard 200. With the release of the album, Etheridge also released the single "Refugee", a cover of the Tom Petty

Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

song. The song reached #96 on the Pop 100. Also released for radio was the new song "I Run For Life", written about Etheridge's struggle with breast cancer. The song reached #80 on the Pop 100 and #10 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Etheridge's greatest hits collection was certified Gold in December 2005 for shipping over 500,000 copies, her first Gold certification since Breakdown in 1999.