The Wreckers

In 2004, Michelle Branch took a break from her successful solo career to team with friend and touring backup singer Jessica Harp in a new project called the Wreckers. Previous to the Branch collaboration, Harp had been working as a singer/songwriter in Nashville, and those country music elements mixed with Branch’s pop sensibilities to inform the Wreckers’ rootsy, harmony-rich sound. The duo debuted in autumn 2004, performing “Good Kind” on the WB teen drama One Tree Hill. “Good Kind” then appeared on the show’s official soundtrack — issued in January 2005 — as the Wreckers prepared to release their full-length debut. Its first single, “Leave the Pieces,” hit country radio before the album, Stand Still, Look Pretty, appeared in March 2006 on Maverick.