The Irish Times
Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant

The Irish Times

Tony Clayton-Lea discusses patience and resilience during the pandemic, the music of the Irish band LANKUM, and the conservative Supreme Court with Natalie for The Irish Times.

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Keep Your Courage!
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Keep Your Courage!

Keep Your Courage, Natalie’s long-awaited ninth solo studio album is released today on Nonesuch Records!

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Télérama
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Télérama

Voix parmi les plus émouvantes d’Amérique, la discrète étoile du folk-rock américain brise un silence de neuf ans avec un album dédié aux peines de cœur, nourri par la poésie de Walt Whitman. Entretien.

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Paste Online
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Paste Online

Natalie speaks to Paste Online’s Tony Lanham about the collection of songs contained in Keep Your Courage.

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NPR Weekend Edition
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NPR Weekend Edition

Natalie joins NPR Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe for an Easter Sunday morning chat about Joan Didion’s sunglasses, platonic and romantic love, meeting Abena-Koomson Davis, singing with the National Symphony, and not being recognized at the grocery store.

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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel

Natalie works with director Matthew Shattuck and cinematographer Andrew Pulaski of Machine Street Projects to release a new music video for the song “Tower of Babel” from her new album, Keep Your Courage.

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BBC Radio Front Row
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BBC Radio Front Row

BBC Radio presenter Samira Ahmen of Front Row speaks to Natalie about songwriting, love, passion, retrospection, mythology, harmony, tolerance, communication and the wisdom of older women.

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Come On, Aphrodite
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Come On, Aphrodite

In anticipation of the release of her forthcoming album, Natalie and Abena Koomson-Davis team up with director Matthew Shattuck and cinematographer Andrew Pulaski of Machine Street Projects to release a music video for the song “Come On, Aphrodite” from Keep Your Courage.

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Come On, Aphrodite
Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant

Come On, Aphrodite

In anticipation of the April 14th release of Keep Your Courage, film editor Robert Edridge-Waks has created a lyric video for “Come On, Aphrodite.” This first featured track is a duet sung by Abena Koomson-Davis and Natalie. Photograph of the Aphrodite sculpture is provided by the kind permission from The British Museum.

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Every Mother Counts
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Every Mother Counts

Natalie joined Valerie June at the benefit concert for Christy Turlington Burns’ organization Every Mother Counts, a social justice group working towards quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all.

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Exit Stage Left
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Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlives of Pop Stars, a new book by Nick Duerden, examines fame and its aftermath through interviews with: Bob Geldof, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Joan Armatrading, Tanya Donelly, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray, and Justin Hawkins, and…Natalie Merchant.

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Put the Law on You
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Put the Law on You

Continuing our celebration of the 20th anniversary of Motherland, here’s a performance of “Put the Law on You” by kind permission of Austin City Limits. 

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Build A Levee
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Build A Levee

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Motherland, we are sharing a special piece of outtake footage from the rehearsal for the concert film and documentary Shelter featuring Simi Stone and Amy Helm working our their harmonies for Natalie’s song, “Build A Levee” (2013).

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Tell Yourself
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Tell Yourself

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Motherland, we are sharing a live performance of the song “Tell Yourself” filmed during a benefit concert for the Watervliet Shaker Site.

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