MINNEAPOLIS - MAY 1986: Natalie Merchant of Ten Thousand Maniacs performs ... You obviously know how to write music." And we said, "Wow, really?" And he said, "Yeah." Obviously, we haven't reached ...

You co-wrote it with Natalie Merchant. How did the tune come about? Drew: The music always came first with the band. We would all work on chord structure ideas and bring them in. We'd then record ...

Singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant sets poetry to music in her newest studio album, looking at childhood through the works of poets such as E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves and even Mother Goose.