Natalie Merchant – Keswick Theater – Glenside, PA – July 11, 2014 Photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2014. All rights reserved.

Natalie Merchant – Ophelia  (Elektra)   Inside the slip case of Natalie Merchant's second post-10,000 Maniacs outing, she poses in a series of retro-looking glamour shots in which she is playing a different character. We get Natalie as glamourpuss, librarian, gun moll, nun, circus girl, Olympic athlete and junkie.   The obvious conceit of the packaging is that we are going to see all sorts of conflicting and surprising views of who and what Merchant is. Too bad the album itse