Tift Merritt @ the Music Resource Center

Tift Merritt’s show on April 22 has been moved from the Gravity Lounge to the Music Resource Center.

Click here for a map/directions to MRC

Parking is available at the paid parking areas downtown.  There is no parking at the MRC.

THIS Show will have limited seating on a first come first serve basis.

Opening: Shannon Worrell

ADVANCE tickets at http://www.starrhill.musictoday.com
& Plan 9 music stores
http://www.tiftmerritt.com

After a Grammy nomination, and top 10 albums in The New Yorker and Time Magazine, Tift Merritt took hiatus with a piano in Paris and came home with her best and most personal songs to date. Her new album Another Country has gotten incredible reviews. After two records and a Grammy nomination, Tift Merritt took hiatus with a piano in Paris and was rewarded with an unbridled inspiration and a wealth of her most accomplished songs to date. On February 26, Concord Music Groups Fantasy Records will release Merritts Another Country. After intensive touring, Merritt erased her grueling schedule and rented a flat with a piano in Pariss 10th arrondisment planning to take time off. Merritt recalls, “Days were wonderful there. I wore the same clothes nearly everyday. I would take a coffee in the street, say hello to the good people in the little wine store across from my door,” she writes. “I cannot explain what happened except to say that there were never enough hours in the day to write, and there was always kindness at hand. I took pictures. I wrote stories. I played piano. I wrote songs.” These songs together comprise Merritts third recording Another Country. Merritt describes the writing as a plainspoken look at the distance we all attempt to cross: between two people, between one heart and the rest of the world. Merritts debut Bramble Rose earned spots on both Time Magazine and the New Yorkers year-end Top Ten lists. Tambourine, her sophomore album, was Grammy nominated for Country Album of the Year and earned numerous accolades from press and fans. She has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and shared the stage with Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, and Nickel Creek. Her Austin City Limits television performance was released on DVD in October of 2007. Another Country was written by Tift Merritt, produced by George Drakoulias, and recorded by David Bianco. The players include guitarists Charlie Sexton and Doug Pettibone and Tifts longtime band, Zeke Hutchins (drums), Jay Brown (bass) and Danny Eisenberg (keyboards). A writer, singer and sometime photographer, Tift Merritt is a North Carolina native who lives in New York City and longs for Paris.