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- Summary: Produced by Tucker Martine, the fifth studio album for the New York-based singer-songwriter features Jay Brown, John Convertino, Eric Heywood, and Marc Ribot as guest musicians.
- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Country
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Entertainment WeeklyOct 2, 2012Tift Merritt strips things down on her raw fifth album, letting her aching vocals and bewitching twang do all the convincing. [5 Oct 2012, p.77]
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Oct 2, 2012The disc's winning blend of warm organic tones and smart atmospheric touches, recalls Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball--and could also be the breakthrough for Merritt that Ball was for Harris.
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Oct 2, 2012Traveling Alone feels more spontaneous and immediate than most of Tift Merritt's previous work, but it's no less beautiful or affecting for it.
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Dec 10, 2012How you respond will depend on how you react to such gubbins being brought to bear on Merritt's A-to-B-and-back melodic sense. No doubting its realness, though.
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Dec 17, 2012Traveling Alone sounds like her best album yet.
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Oct 2, 2012This alone-in-a-crowd sound suits Merritt so well and makes Traveling Alone her best and most fully realized album yet.
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Oct 2, 2012With her extraordinary voice having gone AWOL, and with her producer having evidently fallen asleep at the mixing board, Merritt can't overcome Traveling Alone's fundamental dreariness.
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