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It won’t be apparent when she takes the stage tonight at the Troubadour, but the last time Tift Merritt was on the road, a rigorous year supporting her vibrant 2004 album, Tambourine, it left her so worn out that she fled to Paris to get lost. With no intentions of working but simply to take in the solitude of being a stranger in a country not her own, she nonetheless found herself plucking away melodies on a piano in her rented flat. When she least expected it, Merritt was inspired and songs that would ultimately wind up on her newest release, the intimate and hopeful Another Country, began taking shape. The album's title not only alludes to James Baldwin and Merritt's wish to lose herself in a foreign land, but it also suggests a transcendence of musical genre. In Another Country, Merritt finds freedom both artistic and personal.