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Iris DeMent seeking her spot in the big picture
The News Tribune Iris DeMent is speaking by phone from a converted garage in the backyard of her Iowa City home, containing a piano, a small table, a voice recorder and other things songwriters might use to write songs. But that's not actually what she's doing. "Well … |
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Lexington Herald Leader |
Iris DeMent takes a walk in very different 'Woods'
Lexington Herald Leader Iris DeMent traveled another route altogether in constructing her sublime new album The Trackless Woods. A vocalist of regal Americana beauty and a writer of brilliantly reflective songs steeped in often heartbreaking detail (the rural eulogy Our Town … |
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Kansas City Star (blog) |
Iris DeMent plumbs matters of the heart and soul at Knuckleheads
Kansas City Star (blog) The Garage at Knuckleheads felt more like a chapel or a church Friday night. For nearly two hours, before a crowd of more than 400, Iris DeMent and her three-piece band filled the venue with ballads and hymns, many of them gospel songs with lyrics that … |
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Iris Dement goes Gospel, with spirit
Albany Times Union Gospel music seeped into the pores of almost every song that Iris DeMent sang on Friday night, from her opening "The Kingdom Has Already Come" to the encore of "There's a Whole Lotta Heaven." She was seated at the grand piano on the stage on The … |
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For Iris DeMent, Music Is The Calling That Forces Her Into The Spotlight
WUNC This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Happy Thanksgiving. For the holiday, we have a recent interview with singer and songwriter Iris DeMent, during which she performed some of her songs. She was born in Arkansas on the Delta, the youngest of 14 children. |
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Kansas City Star (blog) |
The best music in Kansas City this weekend: Iris DeMent, Brett Eldredge, Diana …
Kansas City Star (blog) A fiercely independent artist who works at her own pace and follows an unpredictable muse, Iris DeMent is touring in support of “The Trackless Woods,” an album in which the former Kansas City resident sets the words of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova to … |
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Little Village |
Iris DeMent brings new concept album 'The Trackless Woods' to the Englert Theatre
Little Village Touring off the release of her most recent album, The Trackless Woods, Iowa City-based folk musician Iris DeMent will play The Englert Theatre this Saturday, Nov. 21. at 8 p.m.. The Trackless Woods is a concept album that utilizes the English … |
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The Herald |
Southern Sound Series celebrates musical heritage
The Herald NPR called Iris DeMent's voice “one of the great voices in contemporary popular music.” DeMent's Pentecostal upbringing seeps through in her piquant voice. DeMent's 1992 debut, “Infamous Angel” was noted as “an essential album of the 1990s” by Rolling … |
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Washington Post |
How one artist wrestling with faith tackles doubt through poetry
Washington Post Four years have passed since artist Iris DeMent returned to her native Arkansas from her home in Iowa to play two shows, also bringing her dying mom home to where she wanted to be buried. DeMent is no stranger to life's difficulties—her album, “My … |
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