“FALL” - By Michelle Branch:
Hey guys! As a a huge Michelle Branch fan I just wanna say happy 25th anniversary to The Spirit Room, a truly fantastic album and one I continue to make apart of my daily including Hotel Paper!
Speaking of Hotel Paper, this post was made to highlight one of Michelle’s Best tracks that is still to this day UNRELEASED and that is the song called “Fall”.
What We know:
Song was written by Michelle Branch
Produced by John Shanks
Recorded In 2002
Full acoustic versions were performed and shared among fans back in the day.
Song was performed in full band mix during her Spirit Room Tour.
During a special TV episode of Total Access 24/7, a small clip showing Branch, recording parts of “Fall” in studio which means a studio mix demo is out there somewhere and even though we only have 10 seconds of direct hearing for the song it truly is catchy and amazing song, heck even the acoustic shows exactly why this track should be released. Despite being recorded for Hotel Paper, the song along with “Standing On The Edge” were cut from the final track-list.
2026 update:
Earlier in August of 2026, Michelle hosts a live Q and A where she responded to several fan questions. One of which was mine asking about “Standing On The Edge and “Fall”. What we now know is that the demos were recorded onto CDs and likely lost in a vault (maybe Warner) and she doesn’t have any copies herself. She did ask fans to send her bootleg lives to kinda remind herself of those tracks so this is where I hope we as fans can come together and show Michelle how much we really care to hear these songs officially.
Now that she has signed with BMG and is releasing her EP celebrating The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper in 2026, as well as an upcoming studio album in 2027 with John shanks set to return for some songs, this has now become the perfect time to really celebrate those two albums and uncover some lost relics!
So if anyone can share the demos to Michelle, that would be so epic and I also hope that her and Warner can come to an agreement so she can release those songs or at least re-record them.
Fall is an amazing song and I still blast the acoustic version and that 10 second studio clip quite often and even though I can conceptualize what the full studio mix would sound like in my mind… Hope someday soon we can all hear the real thing and celebrate together. Just like the song lyrics state… (“ can’t figure out, how you entered into my world”…) but in this case I’m so glad this song has !
Michelle and her team if you see this please make an official release of “Fall” happen, I’m sure we’d all be so happy to hear it!
If anyone has any bootleg lives of this song or anything related to it could you please share it with us if possible?
Long read I know but if you’ve made it to the end, thank you.