Nonesuch Records has announced The Natalie Merchant Collection - a deluxe ten-CD box set compiled by Merchant and due for release on June 23.
The collection comprises ten discs, including all eight of her solo studio albums from the past three decades. A ninth disc, Butterfly, is a new studio set featuring four new songs and six reinterpreted selections from her catalogue, all arranged for string quartet.
The final disc is Rarities, a collection of fifteen rare and previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1998 and 2017, which offers a unique view of Merchant’s creative experimentation through home studio demos, album outtakes, live tracks, and collaborations with diverse artists like Billy Bragg, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Cowboy Junkies, and Amy Helm. Take a look at the complete tracklisting below.
The package also includes a 100-page lyric book and pictorial history of the singer-songwriter’s solo career - an archival treasure box for collectors.
Listen to "Frozen Charlotte" from The Natalie Merchant Collection.
DISC 4 – THE HOUSE CARPENTER’S DAUGHTER (2003)
- Sally Ann
- Which Side Are You On?
- Crazy Man Michael
- Diver Boy
- Weeping Pilgrim
- Soldier, Soldier
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
- House Carpenter
- Owensboro
- Down On Penny’s Farm
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger
DISC 5 – LEAVE YOUR SUPPER (2010)
- Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
- Equestrienne
- Calico Pie
- Bleezer’s Ice-Cream
- It Makes a Change
- The King of China’s Daughter
- The Dancing Bear
- The Man in the Wilderness
- maggie and milly and molly and may
- If No One Ever Marries Me
- The Sleepy Giant
- The Peppery Man
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
DISC 6 – LEAVE YOUR SLEEP (2010)
- Adventures of Isabel
- The Walloping Window Blind
- Topsyturvey-World
- The Janitor’s Boy
- Griselda
- The Land of Nod
- Vain & Careless
- Crying, My Little One
- Sweet & a Lullaby
- I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
- Autumn Lullaby
- Spring and Fall: to a young child
- Indian Names
DISC 7 – NATALIE MERCHANT (2014)
- Ladybird
- Maggie Said
- Texas
- Go Down, Moses
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Giving Up Everything
- Black Sheep
- It’s A-Coming
- Lulu (Introduction)
- Lulu
- The End
DISC 8 – PARADISE IS THERE: THE NEW TIGERLILY RECORDINGS (2015)
- San Andreas Fault
- Beloved Wife
- Carnival
- River
- The Letter
- Where I Go
- I May Know the Word
- Seven Years
- Cowboy Romance
- Jealousy
- Wonder
DISC 9 – BUTTERFLY (2017)
- Butterfly
- She Devil
- Baby Mine
- Frozen Charlotte
- Ophelia
- The Worst Thing
- The Man in the Wilderness
- My Skin
- Vain & Careless
- Andalucía
DISC 10 – RARITIES (1998–2017)
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- Too Long at the Fair
- Order 1081 (with David Byrne & Fatboy Slim)
- To Love Is to Bury (with Cowboy Junkies)
- Saint Judas
- Birds & Ships (with Billy Bragg)
- The Lowlands of Holland (with The Chieftains)
- Sonnet 73
- Learning the Game
- My Little Sweet Baby
- Political Science
- Build a Levee
- Sit Down, Sister
- The Gulf of Araby
- Portofino
You can pre-order The Natalie Merchant Collection here.