“Her poems exist in the context of eternity,” Angela Ball wrote of the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova in the New York Times (September 15, 1997). One might say the same about Iris DeMent’s songs. Like Akhmatova, DeMent has addressed controversial […]
Iris Dement is pretty unpredictable. Since 1996 there have been only two albums Lifeline (2004) and Sing The Delta (2012), with the latter particularly being hailed as a welcome and glorious return to the spotlight with its rich vein of yearning and emotive stories. […]
Iris DeMent at Lizotte’s in Newcastle, Australia on 23 May 2015.
Iris DeMent and Pieta Brown at Lizotte’s, Newcastle NSW, Australia on 23 May 2015.
Lizotte’s, Newcastle NSW, supported by Pieta Brown I disovered Iris DeMent in a pawn shop. It must have been late 1997 when I picked up a second hand copy of Infamous Angel (1992) and noticed the liner notes by John Prine, whose imprimatur […]
If June and Ward Cleaver had conceived a daughter — in addition to Wally and the Beav — and that daughter had been a folk singer, the third Cleaver child very well could have been Iris DeMent. DeMent appears to […]
