Artist	Song
10,000 Maniacs	City of Angels
from In My Tribe (2007)
Natalie Merchant	Owensboro
from The House Carpenter's Daughter (2011)
10,000 Maniacs	The Painted Desert
from In My Tribe (2007)
Natalie Merchant & Billy Bragg	Bread and Circuses
from Retrospective 1990-2005 (2005)
10,000 Maniacs	Planned Obsolescence
from Hope Chest (2008)
10,000 Maniacs	Scorpio Rising
from The Wishing Chair (2008)
10,000 Maniacs	My Mother the War
from Hope Chest (2008)
10,000 Maniacs	Can't Ignore the Train
from The Wishing Chair (2008)
Natalie Merchant	Build a Levee
from Motherland (2006)
Natalie Merchant	Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
from Leave Your Sleep (2010)
Natalie Merchant	Sally Ann
from The House Carpenter's Daughter (2011)
Natalie Merchant	Life Is Sweet
from Ophelia (2006)
10,000 Maniacs	Dust Bowl
from Blind Man's Zoo (2008)
Natalie Merchant	Space Oddity (Live)
from Live In Concert (2008)
Billy Bragg and Wilco Featuring Natalie Merchant	Birds and Ships
from Mermaid Avenue (2007)

Comment:

Folk-rock made for a major ingredient of 10,000 Maniacs early musical recipe, and on her own, Natalie Merchant followed her muse down some folkie footpaths too. Her album [i]The House Carpenter’s Daughter[/i] was full of re-arranged folk songs, like the banjo-flecked traditional tune “Owensboro.” She teamed up with veteran U.K. folk-punk Billy Bragg a number of times — together they penned the smoldering song of faith and hypocrisy “Bread and Circuses,” and Merchant joined in when Bragg and Wilco took a stroll down [i]Mermaid Avenue[/i], putting music to unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics like “Birds and Ships.” Of course, all this earthbound activity didn’t stop Merchant from blasting off into outer space with an update of David Bowie’s interstellar journey “Space Oddity.”

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