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Tift Merritt, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2013

Meagan Beauchemin for NPR

Tift Merritt was first known as a decorated country singer — her 2004 album Tambourine was even nominated for a Best Country Album Grammy — but the North Carolina native has spent the years since wandering down far-flung side roads. Merritt keeps finding ways to place literal and figurative distance between herself and Nashville: She's lived in New York City and France, while exploring the sounds of folk, cosmopolitan pop and even classical music. Her most recent solo album, 2012's Traveling Alone, examines her travels abroad, while this spring's Night finds her collaborating with big-name classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

Hear Merritt perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival, recorded live on Sunday, July 28 in Newport, R.I.

Set List

  • "Engine To Turn"
  • "Sweet Spot"
  • "Spring"
  • "Traveling Alone"
  • "Small Talk Relations"
  • "To Myself"
  • "Marks"
  • "Train Song" (Tom Waits cover)
  • "Drifted Apart" (with Andrew Bird)
  • "Hopes Too High"
  • "Good Hearted Man"
  • "Still Not Home"
  • "Feeling Of Beauty"
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    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)