Tift Merritt to release 'Buckingham Solo' this month

Soulful songstress Tift Merritt is gearing up to release a brand new live album recorded in the United Kingdom. The album Buckingham Solo was as the titled refers, was a solo set performed in Buckingham, UK at the Radcliffe Centre. It will be released on April 18, exclusively through the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, which includes our very own Schoolkids Records in Raleigh. You can listen to "Something To Me" and "Stray Paper" from the album now on Merritt's MySpace page. Oh, and that's the album art to the right there.

Here's the album's track list:

1. Another Country
2. Something to Me
3. Broken
4. Tender Branch
5. Keep You Happy
6. Stray Paper
7. Still Pretending
8. Trouble Over Me
9. Good Hearted Man
10. Morning is My Destination
11. I Live for You
12. Do Something Good

Merritt is currently on tour and is coming to Raleigh's Fletcher Opera Theatre on May 1. She will perform the show solo. Tickets for the show are still available here. It seems like it was ages ago when this show was announced. Check out all of her upcoming dates below.

[UPDATE: New tour dates added.]

Tift Merritt tour dates:
04.11.09 - Fall River, MA - Narrows Center for the Arts [Tickets]
04.12.09 - Cambridge, MA - Club Passim
04.19.09 - Annapolis, MD - Ram's Head Tavern
04.21.09 - Alexandria, VA - The Birchmere [Tickets]
04.22.09 - Charlottesville, VA - The Music Resource Center
05.01.09 - Raleigh, NC - Fletcher Opera Theatre [Tickets]
05.07.09 - London, UK - Jazz Cafe
06.10.09 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
07.01.09 - New York, NY - River To River Festival
07.09.09 - Santa Monica, CA - Twilight Dance Series
07.12.09 - Snowbird, UT - Snowbird Mountain Music Festival
07.15.09 - Boise, ID - The Egyptian Theatre
07.18.09 - Alta, WY - Targhee Festival
07.24.09 - Telluride, CO - Sheridan Opera House