Merchant, Natalie | Keep Your Courage | CD
Merchant, Natalie | Keep Your Courage | CD
Natalie Merchant is an American singer-songwriter born on 26 October 1963 in Jamestown, New York. She went solo in 1993.
Keep Your Courage is a 2023 CD album by Natalie Merchant, released in the USA and Europe by Nonesuch on 14 April 2023 as one disc. It is her ninth solo studio album and her first of new material since 2014's self-titled record, and Merchant produced it. The album includes two duets with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis, contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and clarinettist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by trombonist Steve Davis. Orchestrations are by seven composers, among them Gabriel Kahane, Stephen Barber, Colin Jacobson and Megan Gould, and the nine original songs are joined by an interpretation of 'Hunting the Wren' by Ian Lynch of the Irish band Lankum.
Track List
- Big Girls (Feat. Abena Koomson-Davis)
- Come On, Aphrodite (Feat. Abena Koomson-Davis)
- Sister Tilly
- Narcissus
- Hunting the Wren
- Guardian Angel
- Eye of the Storm
- Tower of Babel
- Song of Himself
- The Feast of Saint Valentine