The Natalie Merchant Collection (CD10)

CD1 TIGERLILY

1. San Andreas Fault
2. Wonder
3. Beloved Wife
4. River
5. Carnival
6. I May Know the Word
7. The Letter
8. Cowboy Romance
9. Jealousy
10. Where I Go
11. Seven Years

CD2 OPHELIA

1. Ophelia
2. Life Is Sweet
3. Kind and Generous
4. Frozen Charlotte
5. My Skin
6. Break Your Heart
7. King of May
8. Thick As Thieves
9. Effigy
10. The Living
11. When They Ring Them Golden Bells

CD3 MOTHERLAND

1. This House Is on Fire
2. Motherland
3. Saint Judas
4. Put the Law on You
5. Build a Levee
6. Golden Boy
7. The Ballad of Henry Darger
8. The Worst Thing
9. Tell Yourself
10. Just Can't Last
11. Not in This Life
12. I'm Not Gonna Beg

CD4 THE HOUSE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER

1. Sally Ann
2. Which Side Are You On?
3. Crazy Man Michael
4. Diver Boy
5. Weeping Pilgrim
6. Soldier, Soldier
7. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 
8. House Carpenter
9. Owensboro
10. Down on Penny's Farm
11. Poor Wayfaring Stranger

CD5 LEAVE YOUR SLEEP

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

CD6 LEAVE YOUR SLEEP

1. Adventures of Isabel
2. The Walloping Window Blind
3. Topsyturvey-World
4. The Janitor's Boy
5. Griselda
6. The Land of Nod
7. Vain and Careless
8. Crying, My Little One
9. Sweet and a Lullaby
10. I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
11. Autumn Lullaby
12. Spring and Fall: to a young child
13. Indian Names

CD7 NATALIE MERCHANT

1. Ladybird
2. Maggie Said
3. Texas
4. Go Down Moses
5. Seven Deadly Sins
6. Giving Up Everything
7. Black Sheep
8. It's A-Coming
9. Lulu (Introduction)
10. Lulu
11. The End

CD8 PARADISE IS THERE

1. San Andreas Fault
2. Beloved Wife
3. Carnival
4. River
5. The Letter
6. Where I Go
7. I May Know the Word
8. Paradise Is There: Seven Years
9. Cowboy Romance
10. Jealousy
11. Wonder

CD9 BUTTERFLY

1. Butterfly
2. She Devil
3. Baby Mine
4. Frozen Charlotte
5. Ophelia
6. The Worst Thing
7. The Man in the Wilderness
8. My Skin
9. Vain and Careless
10. Andalucia

CD10 RARITIES

1. The Village Green Preservation Society (Ray Davies)
2. Too Long at the Fair (Joel Zoss)
3. Order 1081 (David Byrne)
4. To Love Is to Bury (Mike Timmins & Margo Timmins)
5. Saint Judas
6. Birds & Ships (Woody Guthrie)
7. The Lowlands of Holland (Traditional arr. Paddy Maloney)
8. Sonnet 73 (William Shakespeare arr. Natalie Merchant)
9. Learning the Game (Buddy Holly)
10. My Little Sweet Baby (Traditional)
11. Political Science (Randy Newman)
12. Build a Levee
13. Sit Down Sister (Traditional)
14. The Gulf of Araby (Katell Keineg)
15. Portofino

Nonesuch Records releases The Natalie Merchant Collection—a deluxe ten-CD box set compiled by Natalie Merchant—on June 23, 2017. The Natalie Merchant Collectioncomprises ten discs, including all eight of her solo studio albums from the past three decades. A ninth disc, Butterfly, is a new studio set featuring four new songs and six reinterpreted selections from her catalog, all arranged for string quartet. The final disc is Rarities, a collection of fifteen rare and previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1998 and 2017, which offers a unique view of Merchant's creative experimentation through home studio demos, album outtakes, live tracks, and collaborations with diverse artists like Billy Bragg, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Cowboy Junkies, and Amy Helm. The package includes a 100-page lyric book and pictorial history of the singer-songwriter's solo career—an archival treasure box for collectors. Pre-orders are available now in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the new recording of "Frozen Charlotte" from the Butterfly disc as well as an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by Merchant.

To coincide with the release of the box set, Merchant will tour the US this summer with Natalie Merchant: 3 Decades of Song, performing songs from across her entire career. A portion of the tour's proceeds will be donated to the environmental organization Food & Water Watch, which champions healthy food and clean water. Tickets are on sale now at nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Q has called Natalie Merchant "among the most compelling and distinctive voices of the last decade," while Vogue has said she is "one of the most successful and enduring alternative artists to emerge from the Eighties intact and uncompromised." Her career began in 1981 when, as a college student, she joined the seminal alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, which signed to Elektra Records in 1984. As lead vocalist, lyricist, and sometimes pianist, Merchant released six critically acclaimed studio albums with the band, including the platinum-certified In My Tribe (1987), Blind Man's Zoo (1989), Our Time in Eden (1992), and the multi-platinum MTV Unplugged (1993), which became the band's most successful release as well as one of the best-selling in the Unplugged series. She left the group in 1993, and in 1995 released her multi-platinum solo debut, Tigerlily, followed by the platinum Ophelia (1998) and Motherland (2001). In 2003 she independently released an album of traditional and contemporary folk music, The House Carpenter's Daughter (included in this collection), which also coincided with the birth of her child. For the next seven years she lived quietly in New York's Hudson Valley devoting herself to family and community, while taking opportunities to collaborate with other musicians and strengthen her commitment to activism and philanthropy.

In 2010, Merchant returned with a thematic double album, Leave Your Sleep, her debut for Nonesuch Records. For this meditation on childhood and mothering Merchant set nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and British children's poetry to music. She also collaborated with award-winning children's book illustrator Barbara McClintock for a picture book based on the album. In 2014, Nonesuch released Natalie Merchant, her sixth solo album and first of entirely original songs in thirteen years, which the New York Times called a "set of dark, brave, thoughtful, and serenely startling songs" and the Daily Telegraph praised for the "intelligence of her writing, and piercing character studies that thicken with each musical brushstroke." Nonesuch most recently released Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings in 2015. This collection of all-new recordings revisits Merchant's solo debut, Tigerlily. The release was accompanied by a documentary DVD. "Time has only amplified the power of Merchant's music," according to Mojo, while the Guardian wrote of her anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall, "This is poetic indie pop that's reached maturity … Merchant's lush acoustic, orchestral set is dramatic, intimate, and it's impressive to witness."

Merchant remains dedicated to a wide array of social justice and environmental causes. Recently, she spearheaded the making of the protest concert film Dear Governor Cuomo (2013) with New Yorkers Against Fracking, actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo, and filmmakers Jon Bowermaster and Alex Gibney, and she directed and produced SHELTER: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic Violence (2014).