"Pushing humans aside for their inefficiency and creative process is a pattern we need to interrupt at first sight," says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not as if Tift Merritt had been playing it safe before, but when she found herself without a manager or a label last year, she decided to go full speed ahead. On her own dime and direction, Tift ...

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 ...

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 was expected to be the next great country music super star. Instead, she subtly produced five introspective and soul-filled albums that stayed true to her mission as an artist. Eight ...

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 ...

Tift Merritt and her guitar in front of her personally-designed textiles. Seventeen months after the birth of her daughter, singer-songwriter Tift Merritt is gearing up for an international tour ...