Michelle Branch Announces ‘Everywhere and Back Again Tour,’ Releases New Version Of ‘The Game Of Love’ 

Michelle Branch is celebrating her 25-year career with the upcoming EP Everywhere and Back Again, made up of reimagined recordings of her tunes featuring friends and special guests. Today she’s released a new version of “The Game of Love” with New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander and unveiled the routing for a U.S. fall tour. 

Everywhere and Back Again is due out November 6 via BMG. Along with “The Game of Love,” the EP will include new versions of “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted”, “Goodbye To You,” “Breathe” and more.

“Getting to hear these songs, many I wrote as a teenager, performed by friends and peers that I so greatly admire has been such a ‘pinch me’ moment as a songwriter,” Branch shares.  “Suddenly these adolescent songs about love lost and found take on an entirely new meaning and weight when sung by artists of all different genres and in a different era. Being able to celebrate a 25 year career while firmly believing my best work is still ahead of me is the dream of any artist. And having fans that have grown up beside me who are still listening and still care after all these years is the greatest gift. Thank you all for helping me celebrate.”

“The Game of Love” was originally included on Santana’s 19th studio album, 2002’s Shaman, as a collaboration between Branch and Santana. The song was co-written and produced by New Radicals’ Alexander and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. It also did well on the charts, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.  

“‘The Game of Love’ has been such a special song in my life made possible by one of my personal musical heroes, Gregg Alexander from New Radicals,” Branch said. “Many people don’t realize that Gregg wrote The Game of Love and being able to sing this together with him is really a full circle moment and captures the original spirit of the demo.”

Alexander added: “Michelle has been acknowledged as inspiring so many artists and Michelle is one of the kindest artists I’ve ever worked with. Our sometime mentor Clive Davis brought icons Tina Turner and Macy Gray to the studio to ‘try out’ ‘The Game Of Love’ in 2001. Yet Clive envisioned a brand new voice delivering my idealistically innocent lyric and melody.  So when 19 year old Michelle waltzed in delivering a jaw dropping one take vocal, we won a Grammy a year later.  New Radicals and Michelle recently raised the “mix faders” at NYC’s Hit Factory with both our 2001 and 2026 vocals side by side, us both realizing singing our hearts out is perhaps just what the doctor ordered amidst today’s anxiety and global crises!  And Clive, the music world misses you already… this record is dedicated to you.  So let’s turn this motherfucker up and dance like no one’s watching!”

Branch is headed on the road in late September on the “Everywhere and Back Again Tour,” starting with a show at Seattle’s The Showbox. The run features nearly 20 stops across the U.S., including Los Angeles’ The Wiltern and New York’s Beacon Theatre. Artist pre-sales begin today, July 15  and the general sale begins Friday, July 17 at 10am local time. Check out the routing below. 

EVERYWHERE AND BACK AGAIN TOUR DATES

September 27 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox

September 29 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom

October 2 – San Francisco, CA – The Castro

October 3 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern

October 4 – Del Mar, CA – The Sound

October 6 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theater

October 8 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex

October 9 – Las Vegas, NV – Zouk

October 10 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen

October 11 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater

November 4 – Boston, MA – Royale

November 5 – New York City, NY – Beacon Theatre

November 6 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony

November 7 – Nantucket, MA – The Muse

November 10 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues

November 11 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue

November 12 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater

November 13 – Lexington, KY – Manchester Music Hall