Rocktrospectiva: The Formidable "Tigerlily" Turns 30

Released on 20 June 1995 "Tigerlily" was the debut studio album by US singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, released on June 20, 1995, following her departure from the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. The album spawned three singles "Carnival", "Wonder" & "Jealousy" and the album peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.

 

Natalie Merchant's first solo album in where she finally broke free of pop limitations, she moved away of the 10,000 Maniacs sound, the singer changed the jangly folk-rock for a sound quite similar as "Our Time In Eden" which was her last full album with the Maniacs. A pitch-perfect, bright vocals, emotional rescue that made of the entire album driven by her voice and sounds, a full-poetic album the honour beauty.

 

The album has fantastic tunes from the groove and indie "Carnival", the rolling "San Andreas Fault", a piece so emotionally that told the story of the seedy Hollywood dream,  "Wonder." was a simply story about a young baby girl and how she is amazing just sitting there in her crib, with the world on a string and her whole life in front of her.  It was about powerful girls and women, the emotional "Ruver" a tribute to the late actor River Phoenix, that succumbed on Sunset Blvd, here on this track, Merchant is not only mourning his death but criticized the media for dissecting his life. "The Letter." is a lament letter to an old lover that she has yet to pen.

 

Critics praised the album. The intensity and passion flowing throughout the album are exactly why it needs to be in the Newbury St. Collection. The album showed a far greater stylistic range than the Maniacs and Merchant conveys more passion and personality than in the past, a considerably more mature and womanly than the Maniacs, on the other hand, some critics noticed her voice had nearly deteriorated into self-parody, and the album provided the perfect soundtrack for Prozac Nation. In the end, the album has been awarded into an ambitious material far beyond as her legacy with the 10,000 Maniacs. 

 

Tigerlily Track List: 

 

1. San Andreas Fault 

2. Wonder

3. Beloved Wife

4. River

5. Carnival

6. I May Know The Word

7. The Letter

8. Cowboy Romance

9. Jealousy

10. Where I Go

11. Seven Years  

Primicia: Tower Of Babel

            

La icónica vocalista Natalie Merchant reaparece en la escena con este nuevo single "Tower Of Babel" tema dotado de una fuerte declaración sobre la división y confrontación, con un look bastante peculiar toda de negro, el pelo gris y medias rojas con un clip realizado por Matthew Shattuck, el tema se extrae de su nueva producción "Keep Your Courage" a lanzarse el próximo 14 de Abril. 

Discos: The Natalie Merchant Collection

Nonesuch Records anuncía el lanzamiento de la colección completa de la ex-vocalista de los legendarios 10,000 Maniacs; Natalie Merchant bajo el nombre de "The Natalie Merchant Collection" el próximo mes de junio junto a dos "bonus disc" para deleite de sus seguidores.

Esta nueva caja comienza con el debut de Merchant "Tigerlilly" de 1995 e incluye todos los LP's incluso el disco acústico del 2003 "The House Captain's Daughter", "The Leave Your Sleep" álbum doble del 2010 y el reboot de "Paradise Is There" lanzado en el 2015.

En cuanto a los bonus discs, destacamos "Butterfly" un nuevo set de studio que contiene cuatro nuevas canciones y seis selecciones reinterpretadas de su catalogo, todas arregladas para un cuarteto de cuerdas, mientras que el último disco es un especie de rarezas y lados B llamado "Rarities 1998-2017, curiosa colección de quince de sus más raros e inéditos tracks que incluyen demos caseros, tomas de disco, tracks en directo, y colaboraciones con artistas como Billy Bragg, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Cowboy Junkies y Amy Helm. 

El box set incluye un lyric book de 100 pagínas y un pictorial history con imágenes de la artista a lo largo de toda su carrera en solitario, claro esta que aún mantenemos esa nostalgía por 10,000 Maniacs en donde gracias a su peculiar voz le daba un toque único a esa banda estadounidense.

The Natalie Merchant Collection sale a la venta el próximo 23 de junio bajo Nonesuch Records, a continuación el tracklist:

The Natalie Merchant Collection Tracklist:

Disco: 1 – Tigerlily (1995)

1. San Andreas Fault

2. Wonder

3. Beloved Wife

4. River

5. Carnival

6. I May Know The Word

7. The Letter

8. Cowboy Romance

9. Jealousy

10. Where I Go

11. Seven Years

Disco: 2 – Ophelia (1998)

1. Ophelia

2. Life Is Sweet

3. Kind And Generous

4. Frozen Charlotte

5. My Skin

6. Break Your Heart

7. King Of May

8. Thick As Thieves

9. Effigy

10. The Living

11. When They Ring Them Golden Bells (with Hidden Track- Ophelia Reprise)

Disc:o 3 – Motherland (2001)

1. This House Is On Fire

2. Motherland

3. Saint Judas

4. Put The Law On You

5. Build A Levee

6. Golden Boy

7. The Ballad Of Henry Darger

8. The Worst Thing

9. Tell Yourself

10. Just Can’t Last

11. Not In This Life

12. I’m Not Gonna Beg

Disco:4 – The House Captain’s Daughter (2003)

1. Sally Ann

2. Which Side Are You On?

3. Crazy Man Michael

4. Diver Boy

5. Weeping Pilgrim

6. Soldier, Soldier

7. Bury Me under the Weeping Willow

8. House Carpenter

9. Owensboro

10. Down on Penny’s Farm

11. Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Disco: 5 – Leave Your Sleep (2010)

1. Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience

2. Equestrienne

3. Calico Pie

4. Bleezer’s Ice-Cream

5. It Makes A Change

6. The King of China’s Daughter

7. The Dancing Bear

8. The Man in the Wilderness

9. maggie and milly and molly and may

10. If No One Ever Marries Me

11. The Sleepy Giant

12. The Peppery Man

13. The Blind Men and the Elephant

Disco: 6 – Leave Your Sleep (2010)

1. Adventures of Isabel

2. The Walloping Window Blind

3. Topsyturvey-World

4. The Janitor’s Boy

5. Griselda

6. The Land of Nod

7. Vain and Careless

8. Crying, My Little One

9. Sweet and a Lullaby

10. I Saw a Ship A-Sailing

11. Autumn Lullaby

12. Spring and Fall: to a young child

13. Indian Names

Disco: 7 – Natalie Merchant (2014)

1. Ladybird

2. Maggie Said

3. Texas

4. Go Down Moses

5. Seven Deadly Sins

6. Giving Up Everything

7. Black Sheep

8. It’s A-Coming

9. Lulu (Introduction)

10. Lulu

11. The End

Disco: 8 – Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings (2015)

1. San Andreas Fault

2. Beloved Wife

3. Carnival

4. River

5. The Letter

6. Where I Go

7. I May Know the Word

8. Seven Years

9. Cowboy Romance

10. Jealousy

11. Wonder

Disco: 9 – Butterfly
1. Butterfly

2. She Devil

3. Baby Mine

4. Frozen Charlotte

5. Ophelia

6. The Worst Thing

7. The Man In The Wilderness

8. My Skin

9. Vain and Careless

10. Andalucia

Disco: 10 – Rarities 1998 – 2017
1.The Village Green Preservation Society (Ray Davies)

2. Too Long at the Fair (Joel Zoss)

3. Order 1081 (David Byrne)

4. To Love Is To Bury (Mike Timmins & Margo Timmins)

5. Saint Judas

6. Birds & Ships (Woody Guthrie)

7. The Lowlands of Holland (Traditional Arr. Paddy Maloney)

8. Sonnet 73 (William Shakespeare. Arr. Natalie Merchant)

9. Learning The Game (Buddy Holly)

10. My Little Sweet Baby (Traditional)

11. Political Science (Randy Newman)

12. Build A Levee

13. Sit Down Sister (Traditional)

14. The Gulf Of Araby (Katell Keineg)

15. Portofino