After taking years away from extended touring, Natalie Merchant is back with a superb new album, 'Keep Your Courage,' and tour. I spoke with Merchant about both the album and tour and much more.
I read the artist notes where you talked about craving human connection and love. And it's such an interesting thing because I really do believe that most good writing is subconscious. And then it leads you to where you need to go. And so then, of course, there are things that emerge that kind of surprise you. So were there things in this record that really surprised you?
Merchant: Yes, definitely. And I didn't realize how often I normally sing in my daily life. I sing all day and to not be able to do it, i was an emotional outlet that just wasn't available to me anymore. So yeah, it was sobering and then it was almost miraculous when I was able to do both again. Took a long time.
Baltin: Do you find that there's that appreciation and all that you went through is manifested in the record in different ways, just in the sense of like, there's a buoyancy in the record that maybe wouldn't be there otherwise? Merchant: Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to performing the orchestral shows and hearing these songs fully realized in a live setting. Because of the COVID situation, we could only have five people in the studio at a time, and so these songs were built through layering. We did one rehearsal back in November with orchestra to check all the scores and it was pretty thrilling.
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