Tom Dunne: Learning at the feet of the great Ms Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant's new album is Keep Your Courage. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
You think you had a bad covid experience: In the week before the first covid lockdown Natalie Merchant had spine surgery. “There was a risk they’d nick my vocal cords, but the alternative was eventual paralysis,” she tells me.
They did nick the cord and as lockdown unfolded, she was in a neck brace, in a wheelchair and couldn’t sing or access follow up care. Scary, I think you’d agree, by any measure.
