Tift Merritt offers advice on songwriting - N&O
Merritt, who grew up in Raleigh and earned a degree in creative writing from UNC-Chapel Hill, said her music begins with the words. Plucking sentences from her favorite book, "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty," Merritt built a song for more than 100 fans in Duke's Nelson Music Room Thursday afternoon. newsobserver.com