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 ...

Tift Merritt will play at Three Links on Saturday, Feb. 25. Coming hard and fast on the heels of a divorce, Tift Merritt’s sixth album Stitch of the World could almost be considered a breakup album.

“I haven’t done an interview in a really long time, so forgive me if I’m wonky,” says Tift Merritt. After living in New York for nine years, Merritt has recently moved back to Raleigh, the city she ...

The most likely byproducts of combining classical and pop music are prissiness and tedium. But during their hour-long Wednesday set at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Juilliard-trained ...

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has summer shows scheduled up through August 9th, when she plays the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Those dates also include a stop at the Newport Folk Festival on August ...

Fifteen years after her debut, the Americana singer-songwriter teams up with Iron and Wine's Sam Beam to craft an album that's both gentle and... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. When it came time for Tift Merritt to record her second album more than ...

In this concert, the singer-songwriter performs songs from her album Traveling Alone, which she recorded over the course of eight days in Brooklyn. Tift Merritt On Mountain Stage Singer-songwriter ...

THE TIFT MERRITT fan club -- mom and dad, her brother and his fiancee, her manager, as well as boyfriend and band drummer Zeke Hutchins -- all traveled to Los Angeles' Staples Center for February's ...

Backstage at MerleFest, Merritt knows not a stranger. She warmly greets everyone she comes across, from longtime stage manager and friend Maple Byrne to members of (and fellow North Carolinians) the ...

Tift Merritt blasted out her fine new album Stitch of the World in just four days, which makes it the quickest studio record the North Carolina singer-songwriter has ever made, by far. While that was ...

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 ...