Tift Merritt

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In her nascent career, Tift Merritt has already produced an impressive body of work and earned a passionate, dedicated audience. Her live performances, both with her band and on her own, are similarly riveting. Tift’s preceding albums are 2002’s debut Bramble Rose, 2005’s Grammy nominated Tambourine, and 2008’s widely acclaimed Another Country. 2010’s stellar new release “See You On The Moon” is a most important step forward in a remarkable artistic journey that continues to search, penetrate, and surprise. “See You On the Moon” shows off a profoundly focused Tift Merritt doing what she does best better than she ever has – poignant writing and performing welded to the steady pursuit of new places.

Tift Merritt was born on 8 January 1975 in Houston. When she was two her family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Tift grew up. Her father taught her ‘the only chords you need to know,’ and his Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton records were part of her childhood. While in college she met Zeke Hutchins, who encouraged her to start a band and has been her drummer ever since. Tift sent out demo 45s and press kits to every club she could from her P.O. box at the Bynum General Store, and she and the band drove all over North Carolina in their old van. With help from her friend and fellow North Carolina musician Ryan Adams, she got her first management deal and record contract, and her debut album ‘Bramble Rose’ was released by Lost Highway on 4 June 2002.