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Natalie Merchant

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Tracy Chapman: I Could Be Someone

Retrospective by Mark Cooper, Rock's Backpages, February 2024

THE FIRST TIME I heard Tracy Chapman was in the office of an Elektra A&R man at 9229 Sunset Boulevard late in 1987. ...

Natalie Merchant: Komedia, Bath

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 18 July 2018

The singer drew on her early work fronting the folk rockers 10,000 Maniacs and revealed an unexpected flair for improvised comedy. ...

Sarah McLachlan, The Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu et al: Lilith Fair, Civic Stadium, Portland, Oregon

Live Review by RJ Smith, Spin, September 1998

BEFORE ANYTHING else is said about the opening night of the 57-date Lilith Fair, let's note the nice: The climate at Portland's Civic Stadium was ...

Natalie Merchant is Lady Goo Goo

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 26 March 2010

Natalie Merchant sold her house in Hawaii to fund an album of nonsense verse involving 130 musicians. It's the most ambitious project of her career. ...

10,000 Maniacs: Merchant Banquet

Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 23 April 1988

WHILE 10,000 MANIACS ARE UP, UP, AND AWAY, SINGER NATALIE MERCHANT IS IMMERSED IN SOME GRAND DIVERSIONS OF HER OWN. SHE TAKES A SPRINGY STEP OFF THE UP ESCALATOR TO ...

Natalie Merchant

Comment by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2002

FORMER 10,000 Maniacs vocalist and lyricist on a record that changed her life: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust RCA 1972 ...

Natalie Merchant: Little Sister Syndrome

Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 1993

MOJO: YOU'VE BEEN described as "interminably serious". Is that accurate? ...

Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily

Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, July 1995

SHE'S BARELY IN HER THIRTIES, SHE became the voice and face of 10,000 Maniacs as a 17-year-old and yet there's always been something olde-worlde and ...

see also 10,000 Maniacs

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