Leave Your Sleep

Natalie Merchant
Leave Your Sleep

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Release date: 16/Apr/2010
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Details / Tracklist: Disc 01
MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. "Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. "Equestrienne"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. "Calico pie"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. "Bleezer's ice-cream"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. "It makes a change"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. "The king of China's daughter"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. "The dancing bear"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. "The man in the wilderness"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. "If no one ever marries me"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 11. "The sleepy giant"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 12. "The peppery man"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 13. "The blind men and the elephant"

Disc 02

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. "Adventures of Isabel"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. "The walloping window blind"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. "Topsyturvey-world"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. "The janitor's boy"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. "Griselda"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. "The land of nod"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. "Vain and careless"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. "Crying, my little one"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. "Sweet and a lullaby"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. "I saw a ship a-sailing"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 11. "Autumn lullaby"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 12. "Spring and Fall: to a young child"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 13. "Indian names"
Number of discs: 2
Description:Leave Your Sleep by natalie Merchant, released 1 March 2010. This version of Leave Your Sleep comes as a 2xCD. -
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.
No. of tracks: 26
Manufacturer No.: 7559798039
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Mark Saleski - 15/Apr/2010 
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