Lisa Loeb

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guess who I booked for you one time as being reciprocal? Lisa Loeb.

Lisa Loeb.

We got to get somebody for you.

Fall Out Boy.

Yeah, it's a sexy librarian.

Looks like Lisa Loeb.

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mean, you got fly glasses, Ike.

E17 on Around the World, letting off Steam Tour in 1994.

He performed on Top of the Pops with Sting, Capella, PJ and Duncan, Snap and Lisa Loeb, which I'm trying to get Lisa Loeb on the show right now, actually.

Lisa Loeb.

He performed at London Pride.

He had a 32-year hiatus, you guys, on December 4th.

We also geek out on the music that shaped her, from hearing Fleetwood Mac's Dreams as a Child to learning songs by Neil Young and Cat Stevens on her first guitar.

Michelle tells us why Christine McVie was the secret sauce of Fleetwood Mac, how she ended up singing with Stevie Nicks, and how artists like Tom Petty, Patti Griffin, Lisa Loeb, and Sheryl Crow influenced her songwriting.

It's a conversation about finding success before you've even finished growing up, following your musical curiosity instead of letting success define what comes next, and discovering a new appreciation for the songs you wrote before you knew where they might take you.

Let's go song diving with Michelle Branch.

on the Spirit Room.

It was like that.

And Lisa Loeb was massively important to me.

That first album, Tales, hugely, hugely, like Patti and Lisa were on heavy, heavy rotation for me.

Yeah.

As a kid I didn't sleep very well and so I spent just a lot I spent a lot of time awake very late at night and so I've never been positive this is a hallucination or not but I did experience something and I remember my like my lights are fully on I was definitely like listening to my Walkman this is like middle school listening to my Walkman probably Lisa Loeb's nine stories and and reading and I definitely remember seeing something moving and something hearing something like crawling around and it could have just been a rat or something it probably wasn't though I don't know what it was this is the thing I don't know what it was I didn't see anything, but I heard something terrifying.

And I remember going downstairs and sleeping the rest of the night on the couch.

And then waking up very early in the morning when my dad woke up to go to work at like 5 a.m. And him finding me and me being like, there was something in my room.

our wisdom in the rear view, we have our mortality in the foreview, and we understand.

So I love that, and I'm finding that connection, you know, reuniting with Sarah McLachlan again, Joan Osborne, Lisa Loeb, just people I've met in the past, Tracy Bonham, like just it's beautiful to connect with these women again, and there's something that happens Post-menopausally, we've raised our children, the hormones change.

It's usually historically when women enter politics, they kind of grab their own seat at the power table, the proverbial table.

Historically, even in other cultures, even in...

So we kept doing it.

And then we had test pilot runs in 96.

We didn't have the name Lilith Fair then, and those sold out, those with Suzanne Vega and Lisa Loeb, and then it bloomed into Lilith Fair.

She created the name.