Inside Michelle Branch's Second Act

It's been 14 years since early-'00s pop-rock hitmaker Michelle Branch, best known for her 2001 smash "Everywhere," released her last album. Since then, she's tried out everything from collaborating with Timbaland to a country side project. But her label, Warner Bros., passed on two subsequent attempts at a follow-up LP. "They saw an opportunity to make a lot of money off me, so they wouldn't let me go," says Branch. "But they wouldn't release my music."Then, help came in an unexpected form. In 2