Ernie Chaffin

Melissa Etheridge - Rise

Out Now on Sun Records

Global rockstar and cultural icon Melissa Etheridge presents her new album Rise on Sun Records. The project contains heartfelt and triumphant songs produced by Shooter Jennings and Melissa Etheridge at Sunset Sound in LA. Eleven brand new songs include “Don’t You Want a Woman”, “Bein’ Alive”, “Call You”, and “The Other Side of Blue”, co-written by and featuring Chris Stapleton. As Melissa sagely notes, “sometimes you’re gonna taste the dirt, but then you’re gonna rise.”

Ernie Chaffin Biography

Ernie Chaffin was born in Water Valley, North Mississippi in January, 1928 . He recorded what can only be described as the most original music to come out of the famous SUN Studio. Sam Phillips must have heard and seen something great in Ernie to release 4 singles, this during the heydey of the major Rockabilly explosion in the South. Ernie’s friend and manager Pewee Maddux was the main reason Ernie recorded at Sun and the man who saw the talent in Ernie and encouraged him to believe in what he was doing.