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| | Amazon.com: Tambourine: Music: Tift Merritt (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Merritt's resonant if somewhat conventionally alt-country debut Bramble Rose did little to predict this blue-eyed-soul breakout. |
 | | A mix of hard-charging guitar rockers, horn-charted grooves, and pensive singer-songwriter ballads, Tambourine might have resulted in a stylistic hodge-podge, but producer George Drakoulias lends the same punchy, live-tracked vitality that distinguished the best work of the Jayhawks, Black Crowes, and Maria McKee. |
 | | Merritt taps deep into her southern musical roots to find her own voice, and that voice has fully blossomed--her enunciation is clearer, her phrasing sensual without straining. |
| www.amazon.com /Tambourine-Tift-Merritt/dp/B0002OPES2 (742 words) |
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