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EXCLUSIVE: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination. “My purpose is to ...
Uncut interviewed Natalie Merchant for this month's cover story on R.E.M. Merchant first struck up a friendship with Michael Stipe, that continues to this day, during her time with 10,000 Maniacs ...
Sara Bareilles, Natalie Merchant, and Rachel Yamagata perform "A Night of Community and Song" at Assembly in Kingston on May 25.
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview series with Dennis Drew, keyboardist for and a founding member of 10,000 Maniacs, we covered a lot of ground, including all things Natalie Merchant, the Rock ...
Natalie Anne Merchant was born on October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, USA. The third of four children, Natalie displayed a love for music at an early age, though she never thought of it as a ...
Your new album, “Keep Your Courage”, seems like an ode to female courage, starting with the statue of Joan of Arc on the cover. What courage do women, in particular, need to have today and in front of ...
All of us at WFUV have admired Natalie Merchant for a long time, so we were thrilled when she accepted our invitation to play an FUV Live concert at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in lower ...
As the nation went through a health emergency in 2020, so did Natalie Merchant. The singer-songwriter had major spine surgery just four days before lockdown, with three bones removed from her ...
Prolific singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant will be performing a pair of epic concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center Opera House in D.C. this Friday and Saturday.
As a session bassist, Henriquez has played with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Natalie Merchant, the bachata group Aventura and the Cuban jazz pianists Chucho Valdés and ...
By 1982, the 10,000 Maniacs had transitioned from playing covers to writing their own songs, written by Merchant.
Keep Your Courage is a stirring return from Natalie Merchant. She talks to Best Fit about how love in all its forms sits at the heart of the record.