Tift Merritt and Zeke Hutchins live lightly. The couple’s 265-square-foot apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village resembles the dorm room of a college freshman with immaculate taste and Francophile ...

Raleigh native Tift Merritt has been releasing albums for a decade now. In that time her songs have caught the ear of fellow musicians like EmmyLou Harris who says Tift stands out 'like a diamond in a ...

Traveling Alone arrives exactly a decade after Bramble Rose, the 2002 major-label debut from Tift Merritt. Merritt was a coltish singer-songwriter with roots in Chapel Hill and Raleigh; she infused ...

Before the advent of burning music on CDs and iPods, people assembled their playlists of songs on cassette tapes. Tift Merritt once made mixtapes herself, particularly of her early music, and had also ...

Tift Merritt was expected to be the next great country music superstar. Instead, she subtly produced five introspective and soul-filled albums... Tift Merritt Will 'See You On The Moon' Tift Merritt ...

Why isn't Tift Merritt a star? She's writes country-soul songs that can hold their own beside those of Dan Penn; sings them with a voice that can seduce with a whisper or a shout; she's attractive and ...

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter titled her latest album Traveling Alone — a reference, she says, to the value of being self-sustaining. Tift Merritt: A Singer With An Outsider's Heart ...

Late into Night, the collaborative LP from alt-country chanteuse Tift Merritt and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, the piano line of the traditional “I Will Give My Love an Apple” hangs ominously ...

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, performing in WUWM's Studio C1. A lot has happened in the last year and a half for singer-songwriter Tift Merritt. A new baby, a new album, and a new creative outlet - ...

Tift Merritt makes country music for city dwellers, the kinds of songs that NPR adores but Nashville doesn’t have much use for anymore. Still, the thirtysomething singer-songwriter managed to score a ...

A couple of years ago, singer-songwriter Tift Merritt interviewed classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein for the classical music magazine, Gramophone. As Dinnerstein now recalls, the publication's idea ...

After the success of Tift Merritt's second album Tambourine, the singer felt road-weary and uninspired. So she jetted off to an apartment in Paris, where she knew very few people and didn't speak the ...