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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Though Merritt’s debut album Bramble Rose has sold more than 50,000 copies since its release last June, they’re not exactly living the rock star lifestyle. The house and land belong to Hutchins’ aunt, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When Tift Merritt’s debut album, “Bramble Rose,” appeared in 2002, the North Carolina singer-songwriter seemed like the next step in the continuum running from Emmylou Harris through Lucinda Williams.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tift Merritt’s got a great life. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter lives in rural Orange County with her boyfriend, fellow band member Zeke Hutchins. Their home is hardly palatial, just a one-bedroom ...