Video: Michelle Branch - Ready To Let You Go (Live)

Although Branch made a ballsy move by abandoning her pop rock origins, her nu-country venture feels earnest and fitting. A long time ago, in a land where alterna-chicks and Lilith Fair bore-fests dominated alternative rock charts, Michelle Branch emerged as an angsty teenager armed with her acoustic guitar and backed by genre-defining producer John Shanks. The Spirit Room indicated to all that this was where schmaltzy teenage pop/rock was headed -- Bland City. The intoxicating opening riff of "Everywhere" disappeared immediately to an over-produced mess of a record that did not once fluctuate or...