Natalie Merchant's set at the Lilith Fair was a little erratic, but contained some of the most stirring moments of the evening. I can always count on her to pull something out that will move me to tears. I don't know her solo stuff, and she didn't play any 10,000 Maniacs tunes, but had a lot of great moments. I thought the complicated and meandering arrangements didn't work that well in a festival environment, but it was great to watch her working the crowd ...
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The first time Natalie Merchant met Liz Phair, before the start of last year's Lilith Fair tour, she was sure they wouldn't get along. "I thought, 'Oh, Liz isn't gonna like me,'" Merchant remembers. "But the nice thing about Lilith Fair was, everyone could get away from the misconceived notions that we all have about each other from the press that we've been given over the years. It was hard, coming into a room and meeting a musician that I've [never met] and trying to get their videos and interviews out of my head and just meet the woman. And when I did meet Liz, I thought, 'Oh, she's just a kooky mom.' And Liz said that I was a 'lion-tamer'" ...
Gregg's Natalie merchant page: The first concert I ever went to was a 10,000 Maniacs concert in 89. I was quite taken with the lead singer, Natalie Merchant. I came across a picture of her in a magazine and decided to paint her portrait for a class I was taking in painting for my relatively new hobby of painting (I'd been painting less than a year). It was the first half way decent portrait I ever did. I borrowed a stack of Rolling Stone magazines and found another picture of her. I put a lot of time and effort into the second portrait of her and I was naively proud of my accomplishment ...
Atlantic Records: Natalie Merchant: MOTHERLAND is Natalie Merchant's third studio solo album. Co-produced with T Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, Wallflowers, Sam Philips, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?) MOTHERLAND is a collection of twelve new and original songs. Renowned for her stylistically eclectic albums, Merchant forges ahead with MOTHERLAND, moving in exciting new directions both musically and thematically. This latest offering covers more diverse emotional and intellectual territory than any release in Merchant's career, now two decades in progress.
"Creating a sequence for the songs on this album was a big challenge and I hope that I performed a successful balancing act. I've never written songs more overtly political or so intimately personal before" ...