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Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep
The former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman has been quiet since 2003, when she gave birth to a daughter. Now Natalie is back with a CD that began as a lullaby record and became an album about childhood, with the singer setting Ogden Nash’s “Adventures of Isabel” to stirring Cajun music and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Land of Nod” to dreamy classical sounds. In Natalie’s hands, Edward Lear’s “Calico Pie” is a bluegrass romp, while Mother Goose’s “The Man in the Wilderness” becomes a beguiling gypsy waltz.
