The Trouble With Fever

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Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter Michelle Branch makes her Nonesuch debut with her fourth solo album, The Trouble with Fever. Created during the pandemic lockdown, The Trouble with Fever follows her critically acclaimed 2017 album, Hopeless Romantic. The time at home gave Branch the opportunity to stretch herself creatively.

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Grammy Award–winning and multi-Platinum selling singer-songwriter Michelle Branch’s new album, The Trouble with Fever, will be released September 16, 2022, on Audio Eagle/Nonesuch Records/Warner Records. You can watch a video for the album's first single, "I'm A Man," below.

"I wrote the chorus of 'I’m A Man' long before the verses. It started as an empathetic view towards men struggling to find a new way to navigate in a post–Me Too world of toxic masculinity," says Branch. "Having a son made me think of how men are taught to be from a young age and the pressures to provide and succeed and this sort of burden to be seen as macho. But you can’t tell that story with just one side of the coin because as I was trying to paint a sympathetic view it just seemed completely minuscule and ridiculous in comparison to the struggles that women have been dealing with, really, since Eve bit the apple. Why are nearly all mass shooters male? Why do I need my husband’s written permission in 2022 to get my tubes tied? Why do American women have fewer reproductive rights than our grandmothers? Why don’t we get paid as much as men? Why do I have to teach my daughters not to walk alone at night? And so on and so on. Yet we carry on with grit and grace like we always have because we have no other choice."

Created during the pandemic lockdown, The Trouble with Fever is Branch's fourth solo album and follows her critically acclaimed 2017 album, Hopeless Romantic. The time at home gave Branch the opportunity to stretch herself creatively.

“I only realize now how fortunate I was to have a safe place to create during such a surreal, isolating time. It’s a living, breathing time capsule that I’ll always treasure.”

Michelle Branch was seventeen years old when she signed to Madonna’s Maverick Records. In 2001, she released her highly acclaimed debut album, The Spirit Room, which featured the hit singles “Everywhere” (MTV Video Music Award Viewers’ Choice winner), “All You Wanted,” and “Goodbye to You,” and ushered in a new era of young women writing and performing their own songs. The album went on to sell three million copies worldwide, and was certified double-Platinum in the US, Platinum in Japan, Gold in Australia and Canada, and Silver in the UK, among others. Branch won a Grammy Award for her 2002 collaboration with Carlos Santana, “The Game of Love,” which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was a major international hit. Her second album, 2003’s Hotel Paper, debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard album chart and was a top 10 hit around world. Certified Platinum in the US, and Gold in Australia, Canada, and Japan, it spawned the hit single “Are You Happy Now?,” which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Rock Performance (she was also nominated for Best New Artist). In 2006, Branch found success with Jessica Harp as modern-country duo The Wreckers, whose debut, Stand Still, Look Pretty, was praised by critics for breaking down barriers between pop and country. The Gold-certified album included the hit single “Leave the Pieces,” which topped the Hot Country Songs chart for several weeks, and earned Branch her fourth Grammy nomination, as well as “My Oh My” and “Tennessee.” In 2017, Branch released her critically acclaimed fourth album, Hopeless Romantic (Verve). Paste said of it, “Sprinkled with gorgeous, transparent, and colorful synths, Hopeless Romantic casts Branch as a newly matured lover and songwriter and is indeed likely to succeed at satisfying diehards and welcoming in new devotees.”

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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney
Recorded April-August 2020 at Branch's home studio in Nashville, TN
Engineered by Marc Whitmore
Mixed by Tchad Blake at Full Mongrel Studios, Wales
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ

All songs by Michelle Branch, except tracks 3, 5, 7, and 8 by Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney

Art Direction and Design by Stephen Walker
Front cover photo: "Cape Cod Beach, July 1970" by James Carney
Photography by Sonya Jasinski

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Michelle Branch
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Michelle Branch, vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards
Patrick Carney, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitar
Casey Kaufman, cello

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News & Reviews

  • Michelle Branch has released a karaoke version of "Not My Lover," a song from her new album, The Trouble with Fever, so fans can sing along and recreate the official video, in which Branch and friends visit a local karaoke bar in Nashville. You can find the karaoke version and the song's lyrics here to join in, as well as the original video for inspiration.

  • Michelle Branch's fourth solo album, The Trouble With Fever, is out now. Also out today is the video for the album's second single, "Not My Lover," directed by Alexa Stone and Stephen Kinigopoulos at a local karaoke bar in Nashville. You can watch it here. "This song is about the mistakes we make and trying to learn from them instead of letting them burn you down,” Branch says. "You have the power to change your own narrative." Branch's tour began in Boston last night and continues in Philadelphia, NYC, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, and LA. Her sold-out show at the Troubadour in LA September 27 will stream live.

  • About This Album

    Grammy Award–winning and multi-Platinum selling singer-songwriter Michelle Branch’s new album, The Trouble with Fever, will be released September 16, 2022, on Audio Eagle/Nonesuch Records/Warner Records. You can watch a video for the album's first single, "I'm A Man," below.

    "I wrote the chorus of 'I’m A Man' long before the verses. It started as an empathetic view towards men struggling to find a new way to navigate in a post–Me Too world of toxic masculinity," says Branch. "Having a son made me think of how men are taught to be from a young age and the pressures to provide and succeed and this sort of burden to be seen as macho. But you can’t tell that story with just one side of the coin because as I was trying to paint a sympathetic view it just seemed completely minuscule and ridiculous in comparison to the struggles that women have been dealing with, really, since Eve bit the apple. Why are nearly all mass shooters male? Why do I need my husband’s written permission in 2022 to get my tubes tied? Why do American women have fewer reproductive rights than our grandmothers? Why don’t we get paid as much as men? Why do I have to teach my daughters not to walk alone at night? And so on and so on. Yet we carry on with grit and grace like we always have because we have no other choice."

    Created during the pandemic lockdown, The Trouble with Fever is Branch's fourth solo album and follows her critically acclaimed 2017 album, Hopeless Romantic. The time at home gave Branch the opportunity to stretch herself creatively.

    “I only realize now how fortunate I was to have a safe place to create during such a surreal, isolating time. It’s a living, breathing time capsule that I’ll always treasure.”

    Michelle Branch was seventeen years old when she signed to Madonna’s Maverick Records. In 2001, she released her highly acclaimed debut album, The Spirit Room, which featured the hit singles “Everywhere” (MTV Video Music Award Viewers’ Choice winner), “All You Wanted,” and “Goodbye to You,” and ushered in a new era of young women writing and performing their own songs. The album went on to sell three million copies worldwide, and was certified double-Platinum in the US, Platinum in Japan, Gold in Australia and Canada, and Silver in the UK, among others. Branch won a Grammy Award for her 2002 collaboration with Carlos Santana, “The Game of Love,” which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was a major international hit. Her second album, 2003’s Hotel Paper, debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard album chart and was a top 10 hit around world. Certified Platinum in the US, and Gold in Australia, Canada, and Japan, it spawned the hit single “Are You Happy Now?,” which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Rock Performance (she was also nominated for Best New Artist). In 2006, Branch found success with Jessica Harp as modern-country duo The Wreckers, whose debut, Stand Still, Look Pretty, was praised by critics for breaking down barriers between pop and country. The Gold-certified album included the hit single “Leave the Pieces,” which topped the Hot Country Songs chart for several weeks, and earned Branch her fourth Grammy nomination, as well as “My Oh My” and “Tennessee.” In 2017, Branch released her critically acclaimed fourth album, Hopeless Romantic (Verve). Paste said of it, “Sprinkled with gorgeous, transparent, and colorful synths, Hopeless Romantic casts Branch as a newly matured lover and songwriter and is indeed likely to succeed at satisfying diehards and welcoming in new devotees.”

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Michelle Branch, vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards
    Patrick Carney, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitar
    Casey Kaufman, cello

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced by Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney
    Recorded April-August 2020 at Branch's home studio in Nashville, TN
    Engineered by Marc Whitmore
    Mixed by Tchad Blake at Full Mongrel Studios, Wales
    Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ

    All songs by Michelle Branch, except tracks 3, 5, 7, and 8 by Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney

    Art Direction and Design by Stephen Walker
    Front cover photo: "Cape Cod Beach, July 1970" by James Carney
    Photography by Sonya Jasinski