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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...