Bramble Rose

Bramble Rose is the debut album by alternative country artist Tift Merritt. It was released on Lost Highway Records in 2002.

Bramble Rose
Studio album by
Released2002
RecordedSunset Sound Factory
Los Angeles, California
GenreAlternative Country, Americana
Length52:37
LabelLost Highway
ProducerEthan Johns
Tift Merritt chronology
The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt
(1999)
Bramble Rose
(2002)
Tambourine
(2004)

The title track has been covered on Don Henley's 2015 album Cass County as a vocal trio: Henley, Miranda Lambert and Mick Jagger.

Track listing

All songs written by Tift Merritt.

No.TitleLength
1."Trouble Over Me"5:08
2."Virginia, No One Can Warn You"4:25
3."Neighborhood"3:20
4."Bird of Freedom"4:08
5."Bramble Rose"4:30
6."I Know Him Too"3:53
7."Sunday"6:11
8."Supposed to Make You Happy"4:20
9."Diamond Shoes"4:48
10."Are You Still in Love with Me"5:22
11."When I Cross Over"6:32
Total length:52:37

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

All Music's Mark Deming rated it 4.5 out of 5 saying "Bramble Rose is a bit short of perfect, it leaves no doubt that Merritt is already a talent of the first order."

Chart performance

Chart (2002) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 47

Personnel

  • Tift Merritt - Vocals, Rhythm guitar, Piano
  • Greg Reading - Pedal steel guitar, Dobro, Harmony vocal, Wurlitzer
  • Jay Brown - Bass, Harmony vocal
  • Zeke Hutchins - Drums
  • Ethan Johns - Lead guitar, Recording engineer, Percussion, Piano, Mixing, Ukulele, Chamberlin, Hammond B-3, Mandolin
  • Benmont Tench - Piano, Celeste, Hammond C-3, Harmonium
  • CeCe White, Julianna Raye - Harmony vocal
  • Stephen Rhodes - Recording engineer
  • Doug Sax - Mastering
  • Tony Baker - Photography
  • Karen Naff - Art direction and design
gollark: Unfortunately, cool nuclear tech isn't well developed/deployed because people are utter dodecahedra about it and most regulation is bad.
gollark: The energy cost is similar regardless of where the computers are if idle power is low.
gollark: But most people don't actually care, visibly.
gollark: I don't think million-qubit things exist and there are fundamental physical limits on stuff.
gollark: I don't really like cloud stuff for privacy reasons and because it stops me from getting lots of cool hardware as used.

References

  1. Deming, Mark. Tift Merritt: Bramble Rose > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.