{"id":331,"date":"2010-04-20T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-04-20T06:39:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:39:50","slug":"natalie-merchant-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/natalie-merchant-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Merchant = Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Since I\u2019m imagining most of you spent your high school and\/or college careers in the nineties, I\u2019m hoping that a Natalie Merchant song was at some point part of your coming of age soundtrack. For me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10000 Maniacs\u2019 \u201cBecause the Night\u201d needed to be sung with an elaborate car dance that my college roommate Jamie and I made up and performed in transit anytime either of us was in need of a pick me up.<\/li>\n<li>Anything from <em>Tigerlily<\/em>, which was my high school I\u2019m-a-writerly-type-who-likes-to-journal album of choice during junior year.<\/li>\n<li>Of my favorites from <em>Tigerlily<\/em>, the winner is \u201cWonder,\u201d which I\u2019m unashamed to make known, was my theme song for the traditional cheesy pre wedding video of growing up pictures Chris and I showed. And now that I think about it, Jamie and I had a car dance to that one as well\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m writing about Natalie Merchant not only because it\u2019s Thankful Tuesday and if I can\u2019t be thankful for my awesome car dances with Jamie today, when can I be? I\u2019m also writing because I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/18\/arts\/music\/18merchant.html?src=twr\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times article<\/a> yesterday about Merchant\u2019s first new release since 2003. Since the birth of her daughter around that time she has been on what she calls, \u201ca maternity leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as many of us can probably attest, \u201cmaternity leaves\u201d aren\u2019t always what they appear. She has been working, writing, and creating what sounds like some pretty fantastic things. And I\u2019m feeling relieved to know that our matriarch of coming of age folk music angst is not releasing some touchy feely I\u2019m-a-mom-now album, but a seriously creative reflection on motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>In her new album called\u00a0 \u201cLeave Your Sleep\u201d she\u2019s recorded original music to accompany poems she and her daughter love. \u00a0As the article states, most of the poems she performs \u201cencompass lullaby, elegy, fantasy, nonsense and tall tales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie, Motherhood, and Elegies? I\u2019m in heaven. Jamie, let\u2019s strap our boys in their car seats and get some sweet new moves ready. Happy Thankful Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m imagining most of you spent your high school and\/or college careers in the nineties, I\u2019m hoping that a Natalie Merchant song was at some point part of your coming of age soundtrack. 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