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Natalie Merchant To Release New Album

Dead Poets Society?

Anyone remember the name Charles E. Carryl? How about Rachel Field or Robert Graves? Still not ringing a bell? How about Natalie Merchant?

Merchant, the former singer of the group 10,000 Maniacs who went on to have some success as a solo artist, is finally back in the spotlight, releasing a new album entitled “Leave Your Sleep.” All of the tracks on the album – 26 in total – are poems written by long-since departed writers such as the trio listed above. Merchant has set their words to music in the hopes of bringing them back to life.

Merchant told reporters after a preview of her project, six years in the making, that she has enjoyed bringing the words of these artists off of the dead flat pages and bringing them back to life. Of course, this is Merchant’s first release since the 2003 album “The House Carpenter’s Daughter” which consisted of mostly covers of folk tunes. Merchant needed to start her own label – Myth America Records – in order to get that album produced, so perhaps it is she who needed to be “brought back to life.”

Merchant, while still with 10,000 Maniacs, had a No. 1 hit on the U.S. Alternative Charts with “These are Days” back in 1992.

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