Michelle Branch Announces New Album 'The Trouble With Fever', Shares First Single I'm A Man
Monday, 18 July 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Sonya Jasinski
Michelle Branch has announced her fourth studio album, 'The Trouble With Fever'.
Created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown with her co-producer and husband Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, the follow-up to 2017's 'Hopeless Romantic' will arrive on September 16. Branch commented:
"The album began during the 2020 lockdown, while Patrick and I were here at home in Nashville. I didn’t realize I was making a record at first — it was more just for our own sanity, getting time together to play music and screw around in the studio."
As a preview, the Grammy Award-winner has shared the lead single, I'm A Man, a hard-hitting pop-rock track that comes with a powerful video. Branch continued:
"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. 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."
Branch will embark on The Trouble With Fever Tour on September 12 in Nashville, Tennessee, with international dates expected to be revealed in due course. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on July 22.
Michelle Branch Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Mon September 12 2022 - NASHVILLE Tennessee - Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville (USA)
Thu September 15 2022 - BOSTON Massachusetts - Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens (USA)
Sat September 17 2022 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia (USA)
Sun September 18 2022 - NEW YORK New York - Webster Hall (USA)
Mon September 19 2022 - WASHINGTON District Of Columbia - 9:30 Club (USA)
Wed September 21 2022 - CHICAGO Illinois - Park West (USA)
Sat September 24 2022 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Fillmore (USA)
Mon September 26 2022 - LOS ANGELES California - Troubadour (USA)
Tue September 27 2022 - LOS ANGELES California - Troubadour (USA)
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