Keep Your Courage

by Natalie Merchant

Keep Your Courage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 April 2023
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:43
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Her first album of original material in nearly a decade, 'Keep Your Courage' finds the former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman fully embracing lush orchestral arrangements. Natalie Merchant utilizes sweeping strings and prominent horn sections to back her distinctively warm, resonant vocal delivery. The record explores themes of human connection, historical myth, and resilience with deep, mature sophistication.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, melodic, orchestral, literate, acoustic, personal, piano

Tracklist

  1. Big Girls (feat. Abena Koomson-Davis) (4:56)
  2. Come on, Aphrodite (feat. Abena Koomson-Davis) (5:20)
  3. Sister Tilly (7:42)
  4. Narcissus (6:02)
  5. Hunting the Wren (5:47)
  6. Guardian Angel (5:56)
  7. Eye of the Storm (5:30)
  8. Tower of Babel (2:28)
  9. Song of Himself (4:51)
  10. The Feast of Saint Valentine (6:06)

Credits

  • Erik Della Penna - acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, electric guitar
  • Alex Sopp - alto flute
  • Eleanor Norton - cello
  • Kinan Azmeh - clarinet
  • Mike Rivard - double bass [upright bass], electric bass
  • Allison Miller - drums, percussion
  • Matt Mancuso - fiddle
  • Kevin Crawford - flute [celtic]

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