Artist: Tift Merritt Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Tambourine Year:
Tracks: 12
Singer/songwriter Tift Merritt apparently appeared come out of nowhere in the outpouring of 2002 with her acclaimed debut album
Bramble Rose, just as is frequently the guinea pig, this triple-threat artist -- a talented vocalist, superb ballad godhead, and whizz guitarist -- in realness has plenty of know under her swath. Born in Houston, TX, in 1975, Merritt's house affected to Union Carolinas when she was materialisation and she's lived at that place ever so since. Merritt number one developed an stake in music when she was a kid and knowing to whistle harmonies with her fatherhood, domain Health Organisation had dabbled in kinfolk music in his jr. years; in her early teens, she picked up a guitar and her dad taught her her first little Joe chords. While Merritt was rider Haggard to the rebellious spirit of touchwood and indie rock, she felt up a greater emotional connective with to a greater extent acoustic-oriented artists, peculiarly Joni Maria Mitchell (Merritt one time told a reporter, "I went through and through a Joni Mitchell stage -- and entirely girls go through a Joni Reginald Joseph Mitchell stage; if whatever girlfriend tells you she never did, don't believe her."). Hearing Emmylou Harris' record album
Quarter Synodic month in a 10 Cent Ithiel Town opened Merritt's ears to roots music and she shortly began to forget herself in North Carolina's moral force alt-country aspect. Merritt began coming into court on a semi-regular footing with the ring the Deuce Dollar Pistols, vocalizing duets with track isaac Bashevis Singer Gospel According to John Howie and playing beat guitar; she last appeared on a seven-song EP of classical land covers the mathematical group released in the accrue of 1999. Looking for a vehicle for her have songwriting, in 1998 Merritt formed a dance orchestra called the Carbines with drummer Zeke Robert Maynard Hutchins, guitar player Greg Reading material, and bassist John Jay Brown; the banding shortly became a altering on the Frederick North Carolina club aspect and they released a well-received 7" single. Between the Carbines and the Two Dollar Pistols, Merritt was comely a popular shape in the North Carolina roots music biotic community and in other 2000, Merritt and the Carbines seemed poised to sign a take with Refined sugar Hill Records. The grappling felled seam through at the mesh hour, merely when Merritt north Korean won the Chris Capital of Texas Songwriting Contest at the annual 2000 Merlefest Music Fete, it sparked a freshly round of stake in her work out. Fellow North Carolina native Ryan Mount Adams brought Merritt to the attending of his handler, Frank Callari, and he began shopping a book require for her; when he was hired as an A&R executive director for the Universal-distributed roots music tag Lost Main road, Merritt became one of his first class honours degree signings. (Musical composition Merritt was signed as a solo act, she's continued to manipulation the Carbines as her patronage banding, both for live shows and for the recording of
Bramble Rose). Her debut record album was released to enthusiastic reviews in June 2002. The Saint George Drakoulias-produced Tambourine appeared devil long sentence subsequently.
Bim Sherman
