Tift Merritt’s got a great life. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter lives in rural Orange County with her boyfriend, fellow band member Zeke Hutchins. Their home is hardly palatial, just a one-bedroom ...

Before the advent of burning music on CDs and iPods, people assembled their playlists of songs on cassette tapes. Tift Merritt once made mixtapes herself, particularly of her early music, and had also ...

“I haven’t done an interview in a really long time, so forgive me if I’m wonky,” says Tift Merritt. After living in New York for nine years, Merritt has recently moved back to Raleigh, the city she ...

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Backstage at MerleFest, Merritt knows not a stranger. She warmly greets everyone she comes across, from longtime stage manager and friend Maple Byrne to members of (and fellow North Carolinians) the ...

Surrounded by award-winning musicians, U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, a Democrat from Wake County, made the case Thursday for ...

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 ...

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter titled her latest album Traveling Alone — a reference, she says, to the value of being self-sustaining. Tift Merritt: A Singer With An Outsider's Heart ...

A couple of years ago, singer-songwriter Tift Merritt interviewed classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein for the classical music magazine, Gramophone. As Dinnerstein now recalls, the publication's idea ...

Why isn't Tift Merritt a star? She's writes country-soul songs that can hold their own beside those of Dan Penn; sings them with a voice that can seduce with a whisper or a shout; she's attractive and ...

Though Merritt’s debut album Bramble Rose has sold more than 50,000 copies since its release last June, they’re not exactly living the rock star lifestyle. The house and land belong to Hutchins’ aunt, ...