Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Intro
2. Are You Happy Now
3. Find Your Way Back
4. Empty Handed
5. Tuesday Morning
6. One Of These Days
7. Love Me Like That - Branch, Michelle & Sheryl Crow
8. Desperately
9. Breathe
10. Where Are You Now
11. Hotel Paper
12. Till I Get Over You
13. Everywhere (bonus track)
14. Game Of Love (bonus track) - Santana & Michelle Branch
15. It's You
| | Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording mode: | Stereo |
| | Album notes | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Personnel: Michelle Branch (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion); Sheryl Crow (vocals); Greg Wells (guitar, piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ, bass); John Leventhal (guitar, keyboards, bass); John Shanks (guitar, bass); Dave Navarro (guitar); Stuart Smith (mandolin); Ollie Goldstein (piano, keyboards, programming); Josh Abraham (keyboards, programming); Jamie Muhoberac, Patrick Warren (keyboards); Paul Bushell, Chris Chaney, Mike Elizondo, Dan Rothchild (bass); Kenny Aronoff, Brian McLeod, Shawn Pelton (drums); Luis Conte, Rick Depofi, Chris Reynolds (percussion); Jessica Harp (background vocals).Producers: John Shanks, John Leventhal, Josh Abraham, Greg Wells.Recorded at Henson Recording Studios, NRG Recording Studios and Rocket Carousel Studios, Los Angeles, California, and New York Noise, New York, New York.When Michelle Branch emerged with her hit debut album in 2001 she was just 17 years old. Having successfully managed the transition into her twenties, she sounds even more confident on the follow-up HOTEL PAPER. This is an album of panoramic pop; even though many of the songs here are based around simple guitar licks and sharp rhythms, most of them burst out into widescreen production by the time the chorus kicks in. "Are You Happy Now?" incorporates a percolating drum-and-bass feel (of the electronica variety) with anthemic rock guitar. Achieving a similar mix-and-match production effect, tricky acoustic guitar licks rub shoulders with snappy drum loops on "Love Me Like That," which features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow. HOTEL PAPER is essentially a pop-rock album with some power-ballad tendencies. Nevertheless, the twangy, chugging "Breathe" is not the Faith Hill hit of the same name but could find its way onto a Hill or Shania album with no trouble at all, indicative of the inherent stylistic malleability of Branch's all-purpose songwriting.
| | Editorial reviews | ...[Sticks to her] folk-rock guns...[HOTEL PAPER] boasts road-toughened guitars and a welcome accusatory edge... - Grade: B
Spin (08/01/2003)
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