27 shows coming up in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Oslo, including Reading Festival, Cornbury Festival and Norwegian Wood festival.  See calendar.

Tift interviews painter Wolf Kahn on her monthly radio program The Spark on Marfa Public Radio, iTunes Podcast and www.marfaspark.com

Among piles of great press, Another Country got a 4 star review in Mojo.

The great band Nickel Creek are Tift’s guests on this month’s installment of her radio show The Spark. Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek will be opening for Tift on her West Coast dates this month.

Tift will be lecturing on “The Art & Craft of Songwriting” at the 22nd annual Tennessee Williams / New Orleans New Orleans Literary Festival on Thursday March 27. 

Tift will be appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday February 25, the night before Another Country hits record store shelves everywhere in North America February 26.

Another Country will also be coming out in Australia Feb. 22, Norway Feb. 25, UK & Ireland April 14, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden - tentatively April.

Another Country has already gotten rave reviews from Paste, Harp, Amazon and Performing Songwriter.

Pre-order your copy of Another Country here.

THE SPARK is a monthly interview program, hosted by Tift, which will debut online and air on KRTS 93.5fm in Marfa, Texas, Sunday Jan. 27, 3pm (Central time). The Spark’s first four episodes will feature author Nick Hornby (January 27), poet C.K. Williams (February 24), Nickel Creek (March 30) and painter Wolf Kahn (April 27).

If you’re not in far west Texas, you can subscribe to The Spark as a free podcast on iTunes (”The Spark With Tift Merritt”), or listen at www.marfaspark.com.

A DVD of Tift’s performance on the television show Austin City Limits just came out on October 30th. The performance features songs from her Grammy nominated album, Tambourine. This appearance taped for television at the end of the Tambourine World Tour, which covered over 40,000 miles and eleven countries.

Click here to preview.

“Tift Merritt made a surprise appearance, taking on “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” to a near standing ovation.” — Billboard

“….last-minute addition Tift Merritt’s straightforward, impassioned reading of “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall — ranked as the program’s most gripping.” — Variety

“Tift Merritt, who had the night’s purest voice, sang “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with cresting drama in each verse, bringing out both the song’s revelations and it’s touches of lullaby.” — New York Times

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