Stitch Of The World
TIFT MERRITT

CD £9.00 Exc VAT: £7.50
  • SKU: CDYEP2469
  • UPC: 0634457246980
  • Release Date: 27 January 2017

Description

Label Review.

2017 album.

Our Overview.

Tift Merritt is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recording artist. 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.  After high school she waited tables, gigged around North Carolina, went to New York City, and at her mother’s urging came back to North Carolina to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  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.

As her official website describes: “Tift Merritt’s music defies categorisation. Her uniquely satisfying stew of rock and roll, soul, folk and country has record stores scratching their heads and audiences dancing in the aisles and telling their friends.  There’s food for thought there, too—Tift knew she wanted to be a writer before she knew she wanted to be a musician, and her lyrics are carefully and finely crafted.”

Stitch of the World, Merritt’s sixth studio album, was written on a friend’s farm in Marfa, Texas, at Merritt’s California cabin and in New York City in the wake of several major changes in her life. Merritt workshopped the songs on Stitch of the World with longtime friend Sam Beam of Iron & Wine after bumping in to him in an airport. The album was recorded in Los Angeles while Merritt was six months pregnant, after which she relocated to her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina.“Dusty Old Man,” the album’s first single, recently premiered via Rolling Stone Country, who said, “Powered by guitars from Marc Ribot and pedal-steel wiz Eric Heywood over a bouncy shuffle rhythm from drummer Jay Bellerose and bassist Jennifer Condos, ‘Dusty Old Man’ has more of a bluesy, loose-limbed feel than anything Merritt has ever done.”

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