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Tift Merritt

Singer-songwriter

Tift Merritt appears in the following:

Tift Merritt On 'Traveling Alone' In The Studio

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Tift Merritt performs three songs from her new album. Plus, the North Carolina native reveals a Southern superstition she maintains as a New Yorker.

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The Greene Space

JS 30: Three Decades of John Schaefer

Friday, December 2, 2011

8:00 PM

In 1981, a young radio host from Brooklyn came to WNYC. John Schaefer was hired to read newscasts and introduce classical music, but soon found himself hosting a new music show that quickly became the on-air hub of the fertile downtown music scene.

Thoughout December, WNYC will celebrate Schaefer’s inimitable ...

Aha Moment: Cy Twombly

Friday, July 22, 2011

In July we lost one of the great American painters — Cy Twombly, who was 83. Twombly defied categories. Unlike the abstract painters of the previous generation, like Jackson Pollock and Willem DeKooning, Twombly’s work was playful...

Bonus Track: Music Inspired by Twombly's Painting

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Tift Merritt: In Studio

Thursday, August 19, 2010

At the beginning of the decade, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt was heralded as the next alt country queen. But over subsequent albums, she turned away from the charts and focused inward.

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Aha Moment: Cy Twombly

Friday, October 03, 2008

After touring the country for a year in a van, singer/songwriter Tift Merritt needed a vacation -- bad. In the Centre Pompidou, she bumped into a canvas that gave her a new sense of purpose. Produced by Studio 360's Leital Molad.

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Bonus Track: "Morning is My Destination"

Friday, October 03, 2008

Listen to the song from Tift Merritt's album Another Country.

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