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 ...

Tift Merritt will play a homecoming show at Cat’s Cradle centered on her classic 2002 album “Bramble Rose,” after moving back to Raleigh following a decade in New York. Parker Fitzgerald Tift Merritt ...

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 ...

A little over twenty years ago, Tift Merritt was 27 years old and on the road wrapping up tour for her debut album. Bramble Rose hadn’t done crazy numbers, but critics were paying attention. Audiences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tift Merritt was scheduled to release her debut album two years ago, but her management decided to hold out for a better deal, and only now -- after many festival appearances and magazine articles -- ...

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 ...