to someone," she [Natalie Merchant] says, her voice low and deliberate, outfit plain and simple, "I'd say, 'It's about childhood, and it's about children, but it's not a children's record, and it involves 19th- and 20th- century poetry.'" She pauses. "And people would run screaming."
Merchant paid for and co-produced the record herself. It finally came out earlier this year: reviews were extremely good, and sales pleasingly high. There is talk of turning the material into a play. People clearly responded to the haunting husk of songs like If No One Ever Marries Me, its lyrics written by 18-year-old Laurence Alma-Tadema in the late 1800s--a girl who did, indeed, never marry.
from The Guardian: Natalie Merchant: mother superior
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