Album: Tambourine by Tift Merritt (2004)
Genre: Country
Format: Album

Description: "Tambourine"  is the second full length studio album by alternative country artist Tift Merritt. It was released on August 24, 2004 by Lost Highway Records, and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Country Album.
In the run-up to recording Tambourine, Merritt listened to a lot of Aretha and Van Morrison and decided that her new record should be a kind of rock-soul thrown down. With producer George Drakoulis on board who was responsible for the roots-rock sound that worked so well on Maria McKee's Gotta Sin To Get Saved album, and behind hugely successful releases by The Black Crowes, Primal Scream, Tom Petty and The Jayhawks her wish was granted.

Artist Background: Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina soon after) is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter, musician. She is currently based in New York. Merritt's father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She began her professional career in 1998 with her band The Carbines playing small clubs. In her early twenties, though Tift had gigged by herself, she decided she was not very good at music and better suited for writ... Part of the Raleigh,USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Mary Gauthier, Patty Griffin, Kathleen Edwards, Allison Moorer

Music Scene: Part of the Raleigh,USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, 2000s, Album

Additional Context: Rating score: 8. Based on 2 votes


"Tambourine"  is the second full length studio album by alternative country artist Tift Merritt. It was released on August 24, 2004 by Lost Highway Records, and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Country Album.
In the run-up to recording Tambourine, Merritt listened to a lot of Aretha and Van Morrison and decided that her new record should be a kind of rock-soul thrown down. With producer George Drakoulis on board who was responsible for the roots-rock sound that worked so well on Maria McKee's Gotta Sin To Get Saved album, and behind hugely successful releases by The Black Crowes, Primal Scream, Tom Petty and The Jayhawks her wish was granted.

Tambourine

Tift Merritt

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