She'll be performing an in-store gig Sept. 11, according to this announcement.

Adam,

Is this record store at the end of the block across the street from a long iron & concrete pillored arch/entrance to a late 40's and early 50's neighborhood ?   If so, I've been there and it's a pretty cool place.  The record store is divided into 2 rooms with a really small, no tiny, stage for bands to perform.  There is also a staircase which may lead to the vinyl area upstairs (I'm guessing), but i was pressed for time and I could not explore the place completely because I had to catch a plane.   Anyway, I hope you catch the gig.  Peter

Yes, that's the place (although Laurelhurst is a much older neighborhood than that  ). I've never actually been in there myself.

A couple of photos from the Portland in-store gig...

Now you can listen to Tift's Sept. 11 in-store performance at this link.

We could have started a new thread, but this one was so close to the top of the queue, it made sense to me to stick with it.

Here's an OregonLive.com review of the Portland gig:

There's something inherently cool about a soprano in a cocktail dress banging the heck out of an electric guitar -- and there's something definitely cool about Tift Merritt, the talented singer-songwriter who brought her rock, soul and folk-country review to Mississippi Studios Monday night.

Merritt was hailed as the next big country thing when she released "Bramble Rose" in 2002, and her follow-up, 2004's "Tambourine," got a Grammy for Country Album of the Year – although calling that album country is like calling Jethro Tull a heavy metal band.

Merritt is an artist whose music is hard to pigeonhole, and that's just the way she likes it.

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Merritt opened with three powerful numbers from her new album "See You On The Moon," including "Things That Everybody Does." Moving to the piano -- which she plays with equal ferocity -- Merritt treated the audience to "Mixtape," about the lost art of making themed cassette tapes (ask your mom), one of her best songs.

Vocally, Merritt bears more than a passing resemblance to Emmylou Harris; during Monday night's acoustic segment, it was hard to tell the two apart. But Merritt has a bit more muscle to her voice and easily carried the heavier songs in her set, such as "Stray Paper" and the ebullient cover of Emitt Rhodes' "Live Til You Die."

I was there last night. Yes, Tift was great, ferocious on the piano, etc.... but I really didn't like the venue. The sound was muddy and there were no chairs! Well, there were a few, on the balcony, but they were snagged early. Most of us had to stand.