The Trouble with Fever is due Sept 16th

Michelle Branch has announced The Trouble With Fever will be released on CD and LP on September 16th via Audio Eagle/Nonesuch Records/Warner Records. The album’s first single, “I’m A Man,” is available now along with a powerful video.

“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, co-produced with her husband, Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, 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.

“The album began during the 2020 lockdown, while Patrick and I were here at home in Nashville,” she shares. “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.”

Branch kicks off her The Trouble with Fever Tour on September 12th in Nashville with dates in New York and two in Los Angeles, among others. A pre-sale for the trek begins Monday, July 18th with the public on sale set for Friday, July 22nd. International tour dates to be announced.

CD | LP

1. Closest Thing to Heaven
2. You Got Me Where You Want Me
3. I’m a Man
4. Not My Lover
5. When That Somebody Is You
6. You
7. Zut Alors!
8. Fever Forever
9. Beating on the Outside
10. I’m Sorry

Michelle Branch The Trouble with Fever 2022 Tour Dates:

Sept 12 – Nashville @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sept 15 – Boston @ Paradise Rock Club
Sept 17 – Philadelphia @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sept 18 – New York City @ Webster Hall
Sept 19 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Sept 21 – Chicago @ Park West
Sept 24 – San Francisco @ The Fillmore
Sept 26 – Los Angeles @ Troubadour
Sept 27 – Los Angeles @ Troubadour