Michelle Branch Hotel Paper incl. Are You Happy Now CD on eBay (end time 08-Dec-09 16:49:53 GMT)

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Artist:	Michelle Branch	Record Label:	Maverick
Release Year:	2003	EAN:	0093624850823
Genre:	Rock	Format:	Album
	Alternative	Compilation:	--
Condition:	New & Sealed

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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
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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.
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...[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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Product Type:	Audio CD<< << Genre: Rock Alternative >>	Label:	Maverick
Artist/Group	Michelle Branch	Code:	093624850823
Title:	Hotel Paper (Copy Controlled)	Year:	2003

	Additional Info:		New, Factory Sealed CD -- This product is postage free for UK customers (additional purchases do incur a charge) Buyer Beware: This is a Copy Controlled product. Album Review Part of the appeal of Michelle Branch on her 2001 debut, The Spirit Room, was that she came across as a spirited normal girl with an enthusiasm for music. She wasn't teasingly sexy like Britney Spears, nor was she a brat like the then-unknown Avril Lavigne; she felt like a real teenager, something that was enhanced by her direct songs and earnest vocals, which were the furthest thing from flashy. Sure, The Spirit Room could be a little too polished at times, but it was tempered by her eagerness to make a record, so it turned out quite endearing. But like many second albums, her sophomore affair, Hotel Paper, finds Branch two years older and a whole lot more "mature," in the sense that any remnants of that adolescent passion have been removed as she positions herself as a serious singer/songwriter in the adult alternative vein. Branch remains appealing — her blend of pop and mild roots rock sounds good and she has a nice, plainspoken charm and straight-ahead voice — but she's buried beneath the slick veneer of Hotel Paper's production (largely by John Shanks) and does not help herself with her compositions, which are vaguely ingratiating, but rarely rise above the generic level. All of it is too self-consciously serious, too preoccupied with turning Branch into a younger but more somber Sheryl Crow (who duets with Branch on the record's best track, "Love Me Like That"). Taken on the surface, Hotel Paper is fine — it's big and shiny and it glides as easy as tunes on an adult alternative radio station on a summer's day — but without that infectious spirit she displayed on The Spirit Room or songs as catchy as "Everywhere," the album doesn't have the detail of character that made Michelle Branch so appealing the first time out. In its place is a professional, polished album that's nice to listen to, but doesn't resonate for much longer than its playing time. _

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			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 - with 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 feat. Michelle Branch 15. It's You

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