Tift Merritt
Tift Merritt
Catherine Tift Merrittis an American singer-songwriter, and musician. With her longtime band, she has built what has been called a "unique" and critically acclaimed body of work of "sonic short stories and poignant performances." She has been compared to artists like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 January 1975
CountryUnited States of America
age consumed easily forgotten quickly work
The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
discovered intensity love matches
In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
whine
I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.
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France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
boil life
You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.
performer writer
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
country music
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
letting love
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
awesome great hours minutes music night spending stage time
Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
anyone apologize ask cannot scary thinks
I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.
I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
cover homemade opposed seventeen takes
I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
ford travel van
I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.