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March 29, 2005

Merchant, Panic on "Path"

Artists contributing tracks for landmine victims
June 30, 2003

New CDs: Merchant, AM Radio

Reviews of "The House Carpenter's Daughter," "Radioactive" and more
May 13, 2003

Natalie Merchant Folks It Up

New album to be offered through Web site
January 30, 2002

Merchant Roams Motherland

Singer to tour in spring

Recordings and Reviews

Tigerlily

The pleasant folk rock of 10,000 Maniacs was never what you would call hard-hitting. Yet it's still surprising that Tigerlily, Natalie Merchant's first solo album, sounds so bloodless and limp. Merchant's voice – childlike and oft imitated – has nearly deteriorated into self-parody, as if...

2006 RS: 1.5of 5 Stars

The House Carpenter's Daughter

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Biography

First as lead singer and songwriter of 10,000 Maniacs and then as a solo artist, Natalie Merchant tapped into a hunger for literate, sometimes mystical singer/songwriter music. Her songs exuded enough pop gloss to land on the radio, but they were also reflective and full of emotional nuance, a combination that established Merchant as one of the guiding lights of the sensitive-gal Lilith Fair explo...

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