Iris DeMent
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Biography
[Edit]One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day, singer/songwriter Iris DeMent was born on January 5, 1961, in rural Paragould, Arkansas, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her devoutly religious family moved to California, where she grew up singing gospel music; during her teenaged years, however, she was first exposed to country, folk, and R&B, drawing influence from Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Upon graduating high school, she relocated to Kansas City to attend college.
After a series of jobs waitressing and typing, DeMent first began composing songs at the age of 25. Honing her skills at open-mike nights, in 1988 she moved to Nashville, where she contacted producer Jim Rooney, who helped her land a record contract. DeMent did not make her recording debut until 1992, when her independent label offering Infamous Angel won almost universal acclaim thanks to her pure, evocative vocal style and spare, heartfelt songcraft. Despite a complete lack of support from country radio, the record's word-of-mouth praise earned her a deal with Warner Bros., which reissued Infamous Angel in 1993 as well as its follow-up, 1994's stunning My Life.
Her third LP, 1996's eclectic The Way I Should, marked a dramatic change not only in its more rock-influenced sound but also in its subject matter; where DeMent's prior work was introspective and deeply personal, The Way I Should was fiercely political, tackling topics like sexual abuse, religion, government policy, and Vietnam. In 1999, she collaborated with country man John Prine on his album In Spite of Ourselves. DeMent recorded four duets with Prine that earned her a Grammy nod the following year. Her own recording career was on hiatus for the late '90s and early 2000s, but she returned in 2005 with Lifeline, a collection of gospel hymns. Released in 2012, Sing the Delta, her first album of original songs in 16 years, found her working again within the sparse and emotional quilt of her earlier releases.
Title: Workin' On A World
Artist: Iris DeMent
Genre: World Music, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: My Life
Artist: Iris DeMent
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Trackless Woods
Artist: Iris DeMent
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Sing the Delta
Artist: Iris DeMent
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Infamous Angel
Artist: Iris DeMent
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Collections
Title: Cool As Folk
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Best of Mountain Stage, Volume Six
Genre: Rock
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume One
Genre: World Music
Title: Tulare Dust - A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard
Genre: Country
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume Two
Genre: World Music
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume One
Genre: World Music
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume Two
Genre: World Music
Title: Folk Live from Mountain Stage
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Country Ballads Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: 100 Greatest Folk Songs (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Pop, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: In Spite of Ourselves
Artist: John Prine
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: True Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Artist: Carter Burwell
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: A Prairie Home Companion: Duets
Artist: Guests, Garrison Keillor
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Man from God Knows Where
Artist: Tom Russell
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume Three
Genre: World Music
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume One
Artist: Aly Bain Jerry Douglas
Genre: World Music
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume Two
Artist: Aly Bain Jerry Douglas
Genre: World Music
Title: The Best of Mountain Stage Live, Vol. 6
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Rock, Alternative Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Indie
Title: Folk Live from Mountain Stage
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Progressive Country , Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 60's
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Folk