When Tift Merritt’s debut LP, Bramble Rose, was released in 2002, it signaled the arrival of an exciting new voice in the burgeoning musical movement known as Americana. The winner of the prestigious ...

I last sat down to talk to Tift Merritt in January 2008, in a coffee shop in Manhattan. It was a period of intense transition for the country-soul singer, songwriter, and Raleigh expatriate. The major ...

Tift Merritt is revisiting her 2002 solo debut Bramble Rose. It made many year-end best-of lists at the time and has been covered by Eagle Don Henley. Now Yep Roc records is re-releasing it on special ...

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, ...

What an apt title for Tift Merritt's debut CD, Bramble Rose. Something grows wild in your otherwise well-tended garden that blends right in, until one day you sit back and realise that something is ...

On Tift Merritt’s debut country album, “Bramble Rose,” the 27-year-old singer/songwriter pours forth prettily about love from a few different perspectives, mixing realism and romanticism. In a lovely, ...

Tift Merritt drags her prey high into the branches of a tree to protect it from scavengers. Credit: Courtesy High Road Touring Bramble Rose wasn’t Merritt’s first rodeo. That distinction belongs to ...

3. What are your expectations for your “Bramble Rose” album? Merritt: My expectations are to perform, and get better at performing and have fun performing, and also to make another record with the ...

seemed like a songwriting ingenue. Her tunes, performed on a chilly May afternoon at the City Stages festival, were sensitive and compelling, bearing the influences of Eudora Welty and other Southern ...

The Lost Highway debut of North Carolinian Tift Merritt marks the auspicious emergence of a major talent. By Billboard Staff The Lost Highway debut of North Carolinian Tift Merritt marks the ...

Texas-born, North Carolina-raised Tift Merritt is still a relative unknown to most music fans. But that's all about to change. Lost Highway records has just released her debut album, Bramble Rose, to ...

Championed by Ryan Adams and produced by Ethan Johns, the man behind his acclaimed 'Heartbreaker' and 'Gold' albums, Merritt certainly has made good friends on her journey up from the bars of the ...