Tift Merritt News & Updates

Tift Merritt Is Set to Bring the ‘Sugar’ With Her First New Album in Nine Years: ‘I Got Back in Front of That Microphone and Was Like, Oh, This Is My Place’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Mar 27, 2026 • Yahoo

Song Premiere: Tift Merritt: “Lingering On”

Already heard Tift Merritt‘s new album, Traveling Alone? You haven’t heard it this way. Merritt ...

Jul 11, 2013 • American Songwriter

Tift Merritt makes a sweet return on "Sugar," her first new record in almost a decade

After the release of 2017's "Stitch of the World," Raleigh-based singer-songwriter Tift Merritt deci...

Jul 13, 2026 • WUNC

Tift Merritt Revisits ‘Tambourine’ Album And Its Demos On New Companion LP

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Sep 03, 2025 • Forbes

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Feb 02, 2005 • Westword

Tift Merritt, a True North Carolina Gem, Still Has Plenty of Material to Mine

A little over twenty years ago, Tift Merritt was 27 years old and on the road wrapping up tour for h...

Aug 28, 2025 • Indy Week

Tift Merritt Biography

Tift Merritt emerged as a distinctive voice in American roots music, a singer-songwriter whose work ...

Jun 13, 2021 • aceshowbiz

Tift Merritt: A Heel Of a Singer

THE TIFT MERRITT fan club -- mom and dad, her brother and his fiancee, her manager, as well as boyfr...

Apr 14, 2005 • Washington Post

How Tift Merritt Dug Up Resilience to Write Her Latest Album, Stitch of the World

There are a dozen moments on Tift Merritt’s sixth album, Stitch of the World, that testify to her ...

May 03, 2017 • Phoenix New Times

Song Diving with Tift Merritt

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Aug 03, 2026 • American Songwriter

Los Lobos, Lukas Nelson, Mavis Staples, Marty Stuart, Tift Merritt, Moonalice and More Join Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup

Photo by Jay Blakesburg Los Lobos, Langford, Hogan & Timms, Mavis Staples, Marty Stuart and His Fabu...

Aug 21, 2026 • Jambands.com

Tift Merritt: Mixtape

Tift Merritt is a triple threat -- a talented songwriter, gifted singer and fantastic guitarist. Her...

Jun 15, 2010 • KCRW

Tift Merritt On World Cafe

The North Carolina songwriter says she was "very anxious and careful" about how being a new mom woul...

Feb 02, 2017 • Northcountrypublicradio.org

Tift Merritt On Mountain Stage

Listen to the Grammy-nominated folk artist perform songs from her album Stitch of the World, co-prod...

Feb 01, 2018 • Northcountrypublicradio.org

Tift Merritt: A Singer With An Outsider's Heart

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter titled her latest album Traveling Alone — a reference, she ...

Oct 08, 2012 • Northcountrypublicradio.org

Tift Merritt tour dates (free NYC show moved inside tonight)

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has summer shows scheduled up through August 9th, when she plays the ...

Jun 30, 2009 • brooklynvegan

Tift Merritt Stitches Together Her Experiences with Music

Tift Merritt will play at Three Links on Saturday, Feb. 25. Coming hard and fast on the heels of a d...

Feb 22, 2017 • Dallas Observer

Tift Merritt’s music unhurried and reflective at the Birchmere

A few songs into her performance at the Birchmere on Monday night, singer-songwriter Tift Merritt as...

Oct 08, 2012 • The Washington Post

Raleigh Native Tift Merritt Prepares For CD Release

Raleigh native Tift Merritt has been releasing albums for a decade now. In that time her songs have ...

Sep 21, 2012 • WUNC

Tift Merritt will ‘See You on the Moon’

Places blur one into the other when you’re a musician on tour spending just 12 or 15 waking hours ...

Jun 15, 2010 • Washington Examiner

An Interview With Tift Merritt

On her latest record, Traveling Alone, Tift Merritt examines the emotional implications, both intern...

Jan 29, 2013 • Seven Days

Tift Merritt Talks Toddlers And Touring

Tift Merritt and her guitar in front of her personally-designed textiles. Seventeen months after the...

Oct 13, 2017 • WUNC

Singer Tift Merritt On a Lifetime of Making Music, What's On Her Mixtape, and Her Favorite Spot In L.A.

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Oct 19, 2012 • LAist

Tift Merritt’s Buckingham Solo

After all of the hubbubthe major-label production and promotion, the Parisian furlough, the exile to...

Apr 28, 2009 • Indy Week

Why can’t you hear Tift Merritt on the radio?

Tift Merritt’s got a great life. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter lives in rural Orange County wi...

May 20, 2003 • Indy Week

Tift Merritt Mixes Quirky Metaphors And Folk Sounds On 'Stitch Of The World'

This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of a new album by Tift Merritt. She's bee...

Feb 14, 2017 • KCUR 89.3 FM

Tift Merritt brings soulful, heartfelt songs to Red Dragon

Writing songs for her sixth studio album, Tift Merritt dove into the uncertainty she faced in life. ...

Feb 15, 2017 • The Advocate

Rep. Ross backs bill to give indie musicians more bargaining power against AI

Surrounded by award-winning musicians, U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, a Democrat from Wake County, made the...

May 28, 2026 • Axios on MSN

Tift Merritt, On the Fabric of Her Life

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, performing in WUWM's Studio C1. A lot has happened in the last year ...

Oct 18, 2017 • WUWM

Tift Merritt Is Over the ‘Moon’ for Her New Album

Before the advent of burning music on CDs and iPods, people assembled their playlists of songs on ca...

Jun 02, 2010 • The Boot