“The Trouble With Fever” by Michelle Branch
Grammy awardee and No. 1 Billboard Adult Contemporary Artist Michelle Branch released another heart-trembling new album. Her latest work made its debut in 2022, during the time of the closure of the pandemic. I enjoyed listening to the entire compilation this evening, on a long summer’s night drive, here in Oregon. It is titled, The Trouble With Fever. It’s up for sale on her website, www.michellebranch.com, in both vinyl and CD formats.
“The Trouble With Fever” is absolutely worth dying for, over and over again. It makes you feel honest enough to actually remember youth and the painful glorifications of lust after love that usually come next. It builds steadily, with the final two tracks “Beating On The Outside” and “I’m Sorry” becoming the truest music I have heard for the year.
Michelle Branch is one of the most important songwriters in American music history given her seriously supreme launch into global domination at seventeen years old, and on none other than Madonna’s awesome-est record label in the world Maverick Records. Michelle Branch’s hand is everything in the writing of the songs of The Spirit Room and it boasts sales in the millions.
At this point, I want to include how much I truly enjoyed The Spirit Room, by Michelle Branch, back in 2001. It was her major-label debut studio album. Her eleven-track masterpiece will celebrate a twenty-three-year anniversary next month. And I have listened to that collection of songs, in full and in sequence (no less!), at least one time, for every one of those years.
Insider details about the life and daily episodes of Michelle Branch are all I want to provide in this blog, but her music is open, true and honest—it feels like she is everywhere without me talking about things in any way! That was a pun, intended, on the 2001 song “Everywhere” (by songwriting team Branch with John Shanks) which was one of the biggest hit songs on The Spirit Room, alongside “All You Wanted” (written by Branch alone), as well as “Goodbye To You” (written by Michelle Branch).
This American angel called Michelle Branch has been the national example of stalwart songwriting for females, for over twenty years. If you feel like falling into her arms, I recommend getting and listening to her most recent work, The Trouble With Fever.