Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep

For a long time she was an artist in Residence at the New York City Head Start program and she was kind of out of active music production for that time. You know I've been listening to 10,000 Maniacs since probably 1990 or 91 and I really don't see Natalie merchandise and acquired taste. I mean she's not like a Bjork or a Lori Anderson or something similar. She's pretty mainstream when it comes to composition and delivery. Yes her voice is non-traditional but it's definitely not niche

Although I have not heard Leave Your Sleep, I’ve always liked the sound of her voice going back to The 10,000 Maniacs days.  I enjoyed her solos and harmonizing on the Cowboy Junkies Trinity Revisited CD, and her cover of Because The Night on the Cover Me CD was extremely good.

She'll never equal or surpass Tiger Lilly, which brought massive attention from the Ultra Woke Crowd which dragged her down back to obscurity.

The Tiger Lilly DVD-A is superb both in content and production.

Apparently she now lives in upstate NY with no electricity and washing her clothes in the river. She doesn't like guns and Republicans.

Totally agree about "Tigerlily"!

Mobile Fidelity did a 2LP, 45RPM, Limited Edition, 180 Gram version of this and it's the best I've heard.  Highly recommended.

I own the newly re-released MFSL Tigerlily, it’s an amazing album and well worth the price.