Melissa Etheridge plays Vail’s Ford Amphitheater

Melissa Etheridge plays Vail’s Ford Amphitheater

Melissa Etheridge found success relatively quickly when she released her self-titled debut album in 1998, but she definitely ran up against challenges, including discrimination because she was a woman rocker. “I would go to radio stations and they’d say, ‘Well, we’d love to play the song, but we’re already playing a woman,” Etheridge said. “That really did exist back then, so it was just consistently playing live, constantly going to these marke…