Broken Bracelet

Mm

... done by Michelle Branch and produced by John Shanks, and this song, like a few we're about to talk about, was included on Michelle's independent debut album, Broken Bracelet.

Yes.

So question for you, because it was, um, on the debut album, Broken Bracelet, how did it get onto the Spirit Room?

So I'm assuming it was just a...

She probably got signed because of the independent or partly because of the independent album, and they were like-

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But still a good song on its own.

But we're going to go all the way back to 2000 and the album Broken Bracelet released on Twin Dragon Records.

I will admit going into this, I knew of the Spirit Room because that was a huge freaking album.

I knew of Hotel Paper.

Yeah.

I mean, the very fact that it's titled Hotel Paper, you can almost picture her on the road, on tour, in the hotel rooms, because the hardest thing for an artist to come up with is their second album.

right and and i recognize that this is her third right but you know we're basically discounting uh broken bracelet because that was an independent release and many of those songs found themselves being recorded for the spirit room so this is your second major liberal album now there's a ton of pressure on it so now you have to think you know while you're on the road you are writing as much as humanly possible so the minute that that album cycle finishes all of a sudden you're in the studio ready to do the next album because the longer you take, the public memory is short.

And if you're, especially at that time, if you're not constantly out there, then people start to forget.