Natalie Merchant

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010

After a seven-year period of silence, singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant is back with "Leave Your Sleep," an ambitious two-disc set that features songs adapted from poems by British Victorians, early-and mid-20th century Americans and contemporary writers, as well as anonymous nursery rhymes. Some 130 musicians took part. The former 10,000 Maniacs singer joins us to perform live.

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