Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep

2010 two CD release from the former 10,000 Maniacs vocalist. Leave Your Sleep is a collection of songs adapted from poems selected by Merchant including pieces by both well known and obscure writers. Featured are works by British Victorians, early and mid 20th century Americans and contemporary writers as well as anonymous nursery rhymes and lullabies. Among the authors included are Ogden Nash, E.E. Cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Graves. In addition to a new method of lyricism, Merchant stretches out musically on Leave Your Sleep by collaborating with a broad spectrum of artists including the Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Medeski Martin & Wood, members of the New York Philharmonic, the Klezmatics, Lunasa and Hazmat Modine.

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
14) Adventures of Isabel
15) The Walloping Window Blind
16) Topsyturvey-World
17) The Janitor's Boy
18) Griselda
19) The Land of Nod
20) Vain and Careless
21) Crying My Little One
22) Sweet and a Lullaby
23) I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
24) Autumn Lullaby
25) Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
26) Indian Names