It’s been nearly a decade since Natalie Merchant has released an album of all-original material, but she’s been quite busy in that time span. She’s reconceptualized her back catalog for string quartet and acoustic arrangement as part of the Paradise […]
It’s time for another roundup of notable upcoming releases. A couple you certainly already know about, but the others could easily have slipped your notice. All of them are fascinating. David Rawlings – Poor David’s Almanack (August 11) If Gillian Welch is […]
Give Natalie Merchant credit. Freed from a major-label contract, she might easily have elected, with her first independently released solo album, to give full expression to a sense of social consciousness that’s sometimes been overbearing. Instead, on The House Carpenter’s […]
