Welcome to the Tift Merritt Screaming Teen Fan Club!

The most righteous Tift Merritt Screaming Teen Fan Club (TMSTFC) was founded on www.tiftmerritt.net on 8 August 2006.  It's small, devoted, growing, active, friendly, international, and has excellent taste in music.  (And, so far as we know, no teens yet--though they are certainly welcome.)  Tift will be happy to tell you that she is all about it.  (It is believed, though not yet proven, that the TMSTFC is her chief source of free whisky (see "The REAL Rules" below).)     

Member benefits include free self-guided tours of Bynum 365 days a year, 24-hour access to www.tiftmerritt.net free of charge, the right to associate with others who care that Tift signed your CD, whisky bottle, stomach, the hood of your Ranchero (bonnet of your Ranchero, for you Brits, but you're not likely to drive a Ranchero . . . ) and the opportunity to become a Mack-Daddy (see below).

The REAL rules

To join the TMSTFC, you have to like Tift Merritt.  If you want the right to be a Mack-Daddy and wear the coveted TMSTFC t-shirt (note:  "Mack-Daddy" is not a gender-specific term; it's a regional colloquialism roughly equivalent to "bada**," and usually applied to things rather than people--e.g., "that's a mack-daddy Ranchero . . . "), you need to present Tift with a bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon at a show (preferably with an official TMSTFC bottle tag attached--contact us for that).  She will not be surprised to see you and your bottle after the show.  (If you aren’t 21 or whatever the legal age is to buy booze where you live, please feel free to contact us and we will happily work something else out--it's all in good fun and everyone's welcome.)

Tift has learned from experience that one of the things she needs to do to take care of her voice on tour is avoid drinking liquor, so if she declines to share a toast with you from your gift, that's why; she'll save it for later.

Once you've submitted evidence of your success, you'll qualify for a TMSTFC t-shirt made to order and delivered for cost of materials and postage (no one's here to make money).

FAQ

Q:  Why Maker’s Mark, and why Still Pretending?
A:  That is an interesting story.

 Q:  Who was the first Mack-Daddy?
A:  Chris McCandless, founder of this website.  See Photos.

Q:  What is Tift Merritt's real name?
A:  Tift Merritt

 Some Screaming Teens at the Labor Day Weekend show with the NC Symphony, Cary, NC, 9/2/07.  From L to R:  Zach Crocker, Mack Daddy #3, long-timer Scott "Hub" Huberty, Chris McCandless,

tm.net founder/admin and Mack Daddy #1, Phillip Reid, TMSTFC founder and Mack Daddy #2.  Not pictured here are long-timer Forrest Smith (Mack Daddy #0) and Andie Reid (Mack Daddy #5).