Keep Your Courage

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MERCHANT: How to eat properly. And the strange thing is, when I started with 10,000 Maniacs, I met them when I was 16. I think we formed the band when I was 17. We made our first record when I was 18. I remember we were in rehearsal one day and the bass player said, let's go to the bridge. And I was like, what's a bridge? I didn't even know the nomenclature. I didn't know how to even name the parts of a song. So I really learned everything through doing. I hope that people don't hold those records from the early '80s up to the work that I'm doing now. Hunting The Wren shifts the tone to be one of a more melancholy approach than we’ve heard thus far. It’s haunting and will make you sit up and take notice but the boldness of the sonic experience ensures that the senses are heightened when listening to this memorable tune. Merchant on her extended absence from performing, recording, and songwriting, leading up to Keep Your Courage and its subsequent tour [15] a b Kennedy, Mark (April 11, 2023). "Natalie Merchant emerges from darkness with nothing but love". Associated Press . Retrieved April 12, 2023.

Written around the time of the MAGA insurrection, Merchant took heart in Whitman’s unwavering faith that a better America could emerge. “Although Jan 6 will always be a dark day, we’ve seen much darker days than that and Whitman lived through them,” she explains.

Abena I met through doing a Get Out the Vote event. I'm part of the Hudson Valley Votes Coalition, and we invited the Resistance Revival Chorus to come up for this rally that we're doing. It was the biggest rally that had ever been held by the Democrats in the Hudson Valley, which was really gratifying. Colin Jacobson. I wanted to do some shows once the record was out with orchestra, and I've been looking at The Knights for several years. It's a younger, sort of hip orchestra, small chamber orchestra in Brooklyn. So I went to see them perform at this outdoor event, and it was the first time I'd seen music in two years, probably. This album is infused with an existential and effusive desire to create unity in a world that can be so alienating. That lush, layered contralto voice can belong to only one person,” says NPR. The New Yorker says: “Her passion is for forgotten people, problems, and sounds.” RASCOE: That really - you know, that got me in my feelings, when I said - you know, it kind of made me tear up, you know, because it's talking about, you know, how you hold all this pain inside and never show them that you cry. Where were you coming from with that?

AT THE VETS: An Evening with Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage Tour". Providence Performing Arts Center . Retrieved May 4, 2023. a b Clayton-Lea, Tony (April 15, 2023). "Natalie Merchant: 'Men need to empathise because I feel we're losing the fight' ". The Irish Times . Retrieved April 15, 2023.Natalie Merchant: 'Christy Moore covered my song Motherland, and when I played Irish shows people would say to me afterwards that it was great to hear a Christy Moore song being covered by me!' Photograph: Shervin Lainez a b c d e Baltin, Steve (May 4, 2023). "Q&A: Natalie Merchant On Her New Music And Tour And the Next Wave Of Her Career". Forbes . Retrieved May 4, 2023.