 Following a two-year dispute with her record label over the songs that would comprise that release, she and PolyGram parted ways.She retreated to her house near Bloomington, Indiana, and wrote and recorded much of the material that made up her independent release, "Velvet Morning", which was released in February 2000 on Egg Records.Her profile received a boost after four of her songs were featured on the TV series "Dawson's Creek".