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Title: Tift Merritt "Broken"
Description: Here's the "Broken" music video by Tift Merritt. "Broken" appears on the Fantasy Records album "Another Country," ...
![video Tift Merritt performing the title track from her upcoming NEW album, "Another Country" (release date 2/26); during a solo showcase ... Picture](../viewVideo.html?title=Tift Merritt "Another Country" (Mercy Lounge)YouTube=YouTube&summary=Tift Merritt performing the title track from her upcoming NEW album, "Another Country" (release date 2/26); during a solo showcase ...&link=http://www.youtube.com/v/BSaBP_nX6xI&fs=1&source=uds&autoplay=1&thumb=http://2.gvt0.com/vi/BSaBP_nX6xI/default.jpg&celebrity=Tift Merritt&videoType=YouTube)
Title: Tift Merritt "Another Country" (Mercy Lounge)
Description: Tift Merritt performing the title track from her upcoming NEW album, "Another Country" (release date 2/26); during a solo showcase ...
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Title: Tift Merritt "Morning Is My Destination" June 25, 08
Description: Tift Merritt takes on piano duty in her network television performance of "Morning Is My Destination," a track from the Another Country ...
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Description: Tift and her band perform the opening track from her debut album, "Bramble Rose"
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Tift Merritt News and Gossip
INDY - Found Apr. 29, 2009
... and promotion, the Parisian furlough, the exile to the independents?it simply seems wrong to suggest that Tift Merritt's most essential and...
Twangville - Found Nov. 6, 2009
Records November 10th. After doing so, what I found was a mellow recording bringing to mind possibly something from Tift Merritt or Emmylou.
Fayetteville Online - Found Nov. 10, 2009
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, five-string banjo player Larry McNeely and the Moore...
Twangville - Found Oct. 22, 2009
... whose pedigree is only slightly ridiculous (Wilco, Whiskeytown, the Jayhawks, Wilco, Tom Petty, Kathleen Edwards, Tift Merritt, etc, etc).
Winston-Salem Journal - Found Oct. 21, 2009
Tift Merritt has played there. So have cover bands.
Cincinnati Enquirer - Found Oct. 9, 2009
I was opening for Tift Merritt, and I'd done some shows on my own at Largo (in Los Angeles), which is like home to me because it's so...
Cincinnati Enquirer - Found Oct. 9, 2009
I was opening for Tift Merritt, and I'd done some shows on my own at Largo (in Los Angeles), which is like home to me because it's so...
brooklynvegan - Found Sep. 19, 2009
Lupe Fiasco @ Beach at Governors Island * Miho Hatori's New Still Life @ Monkey Town * Tift Merritt, Teddy Thompson @ City Winery...
Cookeville Herald-Citizen - Found Sep. 25, 2009
Guests on the album include Elvis Costello, George Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Will Oldham, Tom T. Hall, Tift Merritt, Marty Stuart, Bobby Bare Sr...
Fayetteville Online - Found Sep. 8, 2009
Grammy nominated Tift Merritt, who began her career in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, also has committed.
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| Background information | |
| Born | January 8, 1975 Houston, Texas, USA |
| Origin | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Genres | Folk Rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Voice Guitar Keyboards Harmonica |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Lost Highway, Fantasy |
| Website | Official Website |
Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released two studio albums for Lost Highway Records and one for Fantasy Records. She has released six singles, one of which ("Good Hearted Man") has charted. Her 2004 album Tambourine earned her a Grammy Award and Americana Music Association nominations. The first single from her latest album Another Country also received AMA Award nominations and held the #1 slot on the Americana airplay chart for several weeks. Her live albums so far are Home Is Loud released in 2005 and Buckingham Solo released in 2009.
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Merritt began her singing career while attending the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall high school, where she performed the lead in the school's spring musical, Gypsy.
Merritt then her professional career playing small clubs in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. In 1998 she was part of a band called The Carbines, which released a single, "Jukejoint Girl" b/w "Cowboy", on the Oil Rig Recordings label. In 1999, she released a 7-song EP with the Two Dollar Pistols, led by John Howie, Jr. The EP featured two original songs and five covers.
In 2002, after signing with the Lost Highway label, Merritt released her debut album Bramble Rose. Her follow-up release, 2005's Tambourine, was produced by roots rock producer George Drakoulias and featured backing by Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell (of the Heartbreakers) and Don Heffington (of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band and Lone Justice). Tambourine was honored with a 2004 Country Album of the Year Grammy nomination. In 2005, Merritt and Tambourine were also nominated for three Americana Music Awards by the Americana Music Association: Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year for "Good Hearted Man". It also produced her only chart single in "Good Hearted Man", which reached #60 on the country singles charts in the US.
Tift Merritt signed a new record contract with Fantasy Records on June 25, 2007 and recorded her third full-length studio album, Another Country, in L.A. with George Drakoulias producing in the summer of 2007. Another Country was released in Australia February 22, Norway February 25, February 26, 2008 in the U.S. and Canada.
Merritt is also a photographer; her first gallery exhibition, Other Countries, ran at the new Mahler Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina in May of 2009. She also hosts an artist-to-artist interview radio show called The Spark with Tift Merritt which is produced by KRTS in Marfa, Texas. 1
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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| US Country | US | US Heat | |||
| 2002 | Bramble Rose
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47 | — | — | |
| 2004 | Tambourine
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— | — | 21 | |
| 2008 | Another Country
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— | 156 | 1 | |
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart. | |||||
Live albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 2005 | Home Is Loud
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| 2009 | Buckingham Solo
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EPs
| Year | Album details |
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| 1999 | The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt
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Singles
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
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| 2002 | "Virginia, No One Can Warn You" | — | Bramble Rose |
| "Sunday" | — | ||
| 2003 | "Trouble Over Me" | — | |
| 2004 | "Good Hearted Man" | 60 | Tambourine |
| "Stray Paper" | — | ||
| 2008 | "Broken" | — | Another Country |
| "—" denotes the single failed to chart. | |||
Videos
- "Virginia, No One Can Warn You"
- "Good Hearted Man"
- "Broken"
- "Keep You Happy"
