Limited 10 CD set. The Natalie Merchant 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 catalog, 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. The package includes a 100-page lyric book and pictorial history of the singer-songwriter's solo career-an archival treasure box for collectors.
TRACKS:
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 San Andreas Fault
- 2 Wonder
- 3 Beloved Wife
- 4 River
- 5 Carnival
- 6 I May Know the Word
- 7 The Letter
- 8 Cowboy Romance
- 9 Jealousy
- 10 Where I Go
- 11 Seven Years
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Ophelia
- 2 Life Is Sweet
- 3 Kind and Generous
- 4 Frozen Charlotte
- 5 My Skin
- 6 Break Your Heart
- 7 King of May
- 8 Thick As Thieves
- 9 Effigy
- 10 The Living
- 11 When They Ring Them Golden Bells
- - Disc 3 -
- 1 This House Is on Fire
- 2 Motherland
- 3 Saint Judas
- 4 Put the Law on You
- 5 Build a Levee
- 6 Golden Boy
- 7 The Ballad of Henry Darger
- 8 The Worst Thing
- 9 Tell Yourself
- 10 Just Can't Last
- 11 Not in This Life
- 12 I'm Not Gonna Beg
- - Disc 4 -
- 1 Sally Ann
- 2 Which Side Are You On?
- 3 Crazy Man Michael
- 4 Driver Boy
- 5 Weeping Pilgrim
- 6 Soldier, Soldier
- 7 Bury Me Under Teh Weeping Willow
- 8 House Carpenter
- 9 Owensboro
- 10 Down on Penny's Farm
- 11 Poor Wayfaring Stranger
- - Disc 5 -
- 1 Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
- 2 Equestrienne
- 3 Calico Pie
- 4 Bleezer's Ice-Cream
- 5 It Makes a Change
- 6 The King of China's Daughter
- 7 The Dancing Bear
- 8 The Man in the Wilderness
- 9 Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
- 10 If No One Ever Marries Me
- 11 The Sleepy Giant
- 12 The Peppery Man
- 13 The Blind Men and the Elephant
- - Disc 6 -
- 1 Adventures of Isabel
- 2 The Walloping Window Blind
- 3 Topsyturvey-World
- 4 The Janitor's Boy
- 5 Griselda
- 6 The Land of Nod
- 7 Vain and Careless
- 8 My Little One
- 9 Sweet and a Lullaby
- 10 I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
- 11 Autumn Lullaby
- 12 To a Young Child
- 13 Indian Names
- - Disc 7 -
- 1 Ladybird
- 2 Maggie Said
- 3 Texas
- 4 Go Down Moses
- 5 Seven Deadly Sins
- 6 Giving Up Everything
- 7 Black Sheep
- 8 It's A-Coming
- 9 Lulu (Introduction)
- 10 Lulu
- 11 The End
- - Disc 8 -
- 1 San Andreas Fault
- 2 Beloved Wife
- 3 River
- 4 The Letter
- 5 Where I Go
- 6 I May Know the Word
- 7 Seven Years
- 8 Cowboy Romance
- 9 Jealousy
- 10 Wonder
- - Disc 9 -
- 1 Butterfly
- 2 She Devil
- 3 Baby Mine
- 4 Frozen Charlotte
- 5 Ophelia
- 6 The Worst Thing
- 7 The Man in the Wildeness
- 8 My Skin
- 9 Andalucia
- - Disc 10 -
- 1 The Village Green Preservation Society
- 2 Too Long at the Fair
- 3 Order 1081
- 4 To Love Is to Bury
- 5 Saint Judas
- 6 Birds and Ships
- 7 The Lowlands of Holland
- 8 Sonnet 73
- 9 Learning the Game
- 10 My Little Sweet Baby
- 11 Political Science
- 12 Build a Levee
- 13 Sit Down Sister
- 14 The Gulf of Araby
- 15 Portofino