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Santa Fe New Mexican |
Pasa Review — Let the mystery be: Iris DeMent
Santa Fe New Mexican For her sixth album, The Trackless Woods (2015), Iris DeMent set poems by the late Russian writer Anna Akhmatova to the same haunting yet rollicking country-gospel-inspired music she's become known for since the release of Infamous Angel in 1992. |
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Helena Independent Record |
Sexy cabaret meets hilarious cooking show at Myrna Loy
Helena Independent Record “The Dirty Sexy Chocolate Show” is a mature-audiences-only comic celebration in the midst of the Myrna Loy Center's winter/spring season that features a near sold-out performance by Iris Dement, and the upcoming concert by Irish band Solas. Tickets for … |
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Helena Independent Record |
This week's 25 arts & entertainment highlights
Helena Independent Record It's the Year of the Monkey! Filled with myth and tradition, the Lunar New Year is the most important holiday in many Asian countries. People born in a year of the monkey are witty, intelligent, and have a magnetic personality. Personality traits, like … |
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Southernminn.com |
Not just another band from the Midwest
Southernminn.com On “Here,” the band is joined by what can only be called the Red House Records All-Star Chorus, including Greg Brown, Iris Dement, Pieta Brown, Constie Brown, Seth Wenger and the Ramsey's legendary guitarist father Bo (who also produced the album). |
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Chicago Tribune |
Iris DeMent seeking her spot in the big picture
Chicago Tribune Born in Arkansas, DeMent moved with her family to California when she was 3 years old. Her parents were devout Pentecostals, and her mother often sang around the house, banging out songs on a piano when she was stressed out. Iris was the youngest of … |
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A.V. Club |
Instead of a true reboot, The Muppets “make a few tweaks to our show that make us happy”
A.V. Club For the first time on The Muppets, Kermit and Piggy willingly take the stage together to perform “In Spite Of Ourselves,” a country duet originally sung by John Prine and Iris Dement. Since the song was released in 1999, it was never on The Muppet Show … |
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San Francisco Examiner |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian poetry
San Francisco Examiner In 2012, an artistic collaboration was the last thing on Iowa-based folksinger Iris DeMent's mind. She was busily recording, then touring behind, “Sing the Delta,” her first album of originals in 16 years. “I had my mind, and my plate, full at that … |
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Iris Dement: The Letting Go
American Songwriter One afternoon back in 2011, Iris DeMent sat down at her living room piano and began flipping through a book of poetry her friend had lent her by the late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. By the time she finished reading the first poem that she had flipped … |
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Connectstoughton |
Stoughton Opera House's upcoming schedule features diverse performers
Connectstoughton Dollhausen said some of the artists she's most eager to see and hear include singer-songwriters Aoife O'Donovan (March 31), Tim O'Brien (April 8) and Iris DeMent (April 23). “Aoife O'Donovan has the most angelic, purest voice,” she said. “She's … |
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The Trackless Woods
The Trackless Woods
Considered ”one of the great voices in contemporary popular music” (NPR), Iris DeMent has returned with an album unlike any other in her illustrious career. Featuring original music and melodies by Iris, ‘The Trackless Woods’ (August 7) sets 18 poems by acclaimed 20thcentury Russian poet Anna Akhmatova to life.
Hailed as one of Russia’s finest poets, Akhmatova survived the Bolshevik Revolution, both World Wars and Stalin. She lost family, friends and fellow writers to political killing
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Iris DeMent – Let the Mystery Be
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Top Iris Dement News Stories of the Week
Santa Fe New Mexican |
Pasa Review — Let the mystery be: Iris DeMent
Santa Fe New Mexican For her sixth album, The Trackless Woods (2015), Iris DeMent set poems by the late Russian writer Anna Akhmatova to the same haunting yet rollicking country-gospel-inspired music she's become known for since the release of Infamous Angel in 1992. |
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Iris DeMent: Putting poet's words to music 'fate'
NWAOnline Iris DeMent is speaking by phone from a converted garage in the backyard of her Iowa City home that contains 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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Chicago Tribune |
Iris DeMent seeking her spot in the big picture
Chicago Tribune Born in Arkansas, DeMent moved with her family to California when she was 3 years old. Her parents were devout Pentecostals, and her mother often sang around the house, banging out songs on a piano when she was stressed out. Iris was the youngest of … |
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San Francisco Examiner |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian poetry
San Francisco Examiner In 2012, an artistic collaboration was the last thing on Iowa-based folksinger Iris DeMent's mind. She was busily recording, then touring behind, “Sing the Delta,” her first album of originals in 16 years. “I had my mind, and my plate, full at that … |
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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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American Songwriter |
Iris Dement: The Letting Go
American Songwriter One afternoon back in 2011, Iris DeMent sat down at her living room piano and began flipping through a book of poetry her friend had lent her by the late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. By the time she finished reading the first poem that she had flipped … |
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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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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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Boston Globe |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian writer's work
Boston Globe A few years ago Iris DeMent was invited to sing one song on the Grand Ole Opry's radio broadcast. It had been 20 years since the one-of-a-kind singer had released her debut album, “Infamous Angels,” which featured a song she wrote called “Mama's Opry.”. |
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Enya has released a new album! Woohoo!
Enya has released a new album! Woohoo!
Long time readers of this blog will know that one of my favorite musical artists is Enya. I discovered today that she has a new album, Dark Sky Island, out just two days ago on 11/20/2015.
Although I like most of her songs, I see on iTunes that The Humming and Echoes In Rain are the most popular so far. Listening to samples of those, I see that they are more characteristic of her most popular top 40 radio releases from the past. Of course, I love them.
Close behind those are So I Could Find My Way and Even In The Shadows.
An interesting note I saw about this is from the Editor’s Notes on iTunes that says The Loxian Gate is “…an anthem sung in Loxian — a fictional language invented just for her.”
It is available on iTunes, where it has 237 five-star ratings out of 252 as of this writing, and Amazon, where it has 84% five-star ratings. I will put links below.
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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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Iris Dement at the Egg Friday
Albany Times Union Born in Arkansas and raised in southern California in a home filled with the gospel music of the Pentecostal church, singer/songwriter Iris Dement grew up believing that music had the power to help people through hard times, maybe even save them. |
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San Francisco Examiner |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian poetry
San Francisco Examiner In 2012, an artistic collaboration was the last thing on Iowa-based folksinger Iris DeMent's mind. She was busily recording, then touring behind, “Sing the Delta,” her first album of originals in 16 years. “I had my mind, and my plate, full at that … |
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SOUND ADVICE: Yonder Mountain String Band, PoemJazz, Iris Dement
Wicked Local Two of the biggest stars in folk/roots music when Iris Dement plays the Narrows Center with Pieta Brown opening. Road trip special: the Devens Rock For Warriors benefit for veterans programs takes place at the Bull Run in Shirley, with Saturday Night … |
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NPR |
For Iris DeMent, Music Is The Calling That Forces Her Into The Spotlight
NPR Growing up as the youngest of 14 children, singer Iris DeMent and her family attended a Pentecostal church, which taught that each person would get a calling from God. DeMent remembers waiting in vain for her calling to come — and being disillusioned … Iris DeMent : NPR |
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Slate Magazine |
Like Elena Ferrante, Joanna Newsom Is Performing a Vanishing Act in Order to …
Slate Magazine On her new album, Joanna Newsom—like writer Elena Ferrante and country singer Iris DeMent—performs a vanishing act, in order to make her audience see her more clearly. By Carl Wilson. Joanna Newsom. Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez. Photo by … |
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Riverfront Times (blog) |
The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week, November 16 to 22
Riverfront Times (blog) At times the voice of Iris Dement seems other-worldly, as hieratic and strange as a cantor from the long-gone past. But the Arkansas native, who now makes her home in Iowa, has always been rooted in our time, our towns, our stories and our struggles, … |
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Review: The Pines expose gospel roots at Sacred Heart show
Duluth News Tribune “He Reached Down,” written by veteran country artist Iris Dement, featured imagery straight out of the Gideon's Bible and a chorus built to rouse the faithful out of the pews. The audience responded like it would at the end of any good gospel show … |
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Poetry Is Set To Melody In Iris DeMent's 'The Trackless Woods'
NPR Poems by the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova form the basis of singer Iris DeMent's new album. Critic Ken Tucker says Akhmatova and DeMent share an urge to articulate "sorrow, sacrifice and gratitude." TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. |
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Deadline |
HBO's 'The Leftovers' Gets Sunnier Makeover For Title Theme
Deadline The most ominous musical chord on TV is no more, as HBO's The Leftovers gets a plucky alt-country opening title sequence to replace the grim, spooky (but quite wonderful) bombast of its debut season. The new main title song, Iris DeMent's spry, winsome … 'The Leftovers' Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 'Axis Mundi' 'The Leftovers' Season 2: A New Chapter That's All Damon Lindelof's Own |
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American Songwriter |
Iris Dement: The Letting Go
American Songwriter One afternoon back in 2011, Iris DeMent sat down at her living room piano and began flipping through a book of poetry her friend had lent her by the late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. By the time she finished reading the first poem that she had flipped … |
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Washington Post |
John Jennings, guitarist and producer, dies at 61
Washington Post He worked on albums for singer-songwriters including John Gorka, Iris Dement, Janis Ian and the Indigo Girls. For Carpenter, he produced and performed on at least eight albums and 11 top-10 singles, and he received a Grammy Award nomination for record … |
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Poetry Is Set To Melody In Iris DeMent's 'The Trackless Woods'
NPR Poems by the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova form the basis of singer Iris DeMent's new album. Critic Ken Tucker says Akhmatova and DeMent share an urge to articulate "sorrow, sacrifice and gratitude." TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. |
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Boston Globe |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian writer's work
Boston Globe A few years ago Iris DeMent was invited to sing one song on the Grand Ole Opry's radio broadcast. It had been 20 years since the one-of-a-kind singer had released her debut album, “Infamous Angels,” which featured a song she wrote called “Mama's Opry.”. |
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The Guardian |
Iris DeMent: The Trackless Woods review – powerful Russian-themed country set
The Guardian Country meets Russia, courtesy of one of the most distinctive singer-songwriters in the US. Iris DeMent isn't exactly prolific; there was a 16-year gap before her 2012 album Sing the Delta. Now comes an 18-song concept work, influenced by her adopted … Iris DeMent, 'The Trackless Woods' |
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PopMatters |
Iris Dement: The Trackless Woods
PopMatters There was a substantial eight-year gap between Iris Dement's third and fourth albums, then another eight between the fourth and fifth. Fortunately for her fans this pattern has been broken, and The Trackless Woods, her sixth long-player, was recently … Iris DeMent's poetry in motion with The Trackless Woods |
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Chicago Tribune |
Iris DeMent finds the poetry of Russia on 'The Trackless Woods'
Chicago Tribune Iris DeMent recorded her latest album in her living room in five days with a group of friends, which sounds just about right. DeMent bides her time between albums until she feels fully invested in the music, and then plunges into it without making a … New music releases for week of Aug. 7 |
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KCUR |
Music Review: Iris Dement's 'The Trackless Woods'
KCUR The expectation of fans and critics who want new Dement songs, she's said, has been a burden she's been anxious both to accept and escape. In a sense, this kind-of-sort-of collaboration — words by Anna (who died in 1966); music by Iris — is a way for … Out & About: Iris DeMent with Pieta Brown |
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American Songwriter |
Iris Dement: The Letting Go
American Songwriter One afternoon back in 2011, Iris DeMent sat down at her living room piano and began flipping through a book of poetry her friend had lent her by the late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. By the time she finished reading the first poem that she had flipped … |
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Deadline |
HBO's 'The Leftovers' Gets Sunnier Makeover For Title Theme
Deadline The most ominous musical chord on TV is no more, as HBO's The Leftovers gets a plucky alt-country opening title sequence to replace the grim, spooky (but quite wonderful) bombast of its debut season. The new main title song, Iris DeMent's spry, winsome … 'The Leftovers' Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 'Axis Mundi' 'The Leftovers' Season 2: A New Chapter That's All Damon Lindelof's Own |
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WCBE 90.5 FM |
An Unexpected Revival For A Beloved Russian Poet
WCBE 90.5 FM There's a surge of interest in the work of 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. It's inspired in part by American country and folk singer-songwriter Iris Dement, who has an adopted daughter from Russia and has set some of the poet's work to music … Anna Akhmatova : The Poetry Foundation Bio | Iris Dement Nikolai Punin – Oxford Reference |
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Poetry Is Set To Melody In Iris DeMent's 'The Trackless Woods'
NPR Poems by the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova form the basis of singer Iris DeMent's new album. Critic Ken Tucker says Akhmatova and DeMent share an urge to articulate "sorrow, sacrifice and gratitude." TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. |
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Bustle |
What's The Song In 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Opening Credits? It Has A …
Bustle With a new season comes a new theme song for The Leftovers Season 2. Much like the show has left Mapleton for Jarden, the show's opening credits have left the dramatic violins behind for the chipper Iris Dement. The new Leftovers opening credits song … |
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How Traveling In China Went From Adventure To Ordeal
WAMU 88.5 An Unexpected Revival For A Beloved Russian Poet. Singer Iris Dement's new album is based on the work of the late Anna Akhmatova, whose spare, insightful lines addressed the ambiguities of love and the tumult of Soviet times. |
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Boston Globe |
Iris DeMent finds inspiration in Russian writer's work
Boston Globe A few years ago Iris DeMent was invited to sing one song on the Grand Ole Opry's radio broadcast. It had been 20 years since the one-of-a-kind singer had released her debut album, “Infamous Angels,” which featured a song she wrote called “Mama's Opry.”. |
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The Guardian |
Iris DeMent: The Trackless Woods review – powerful Russian-themed country set
The Guardian Country meets Russia, courtesy of one of the most distinctive singer-songwriters in the US. Iris DeMent isn't exactly prolific; there was a 16-year gap before her 2012 album Sing the Delta. Now comes an 18-song concept work, influenced by her adopted … Iris DeMent, 'The Trackless Woods' |
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Chicago Tribune |
Iris DeMent finds the poetry of Russia on 'The Trackless Woods'
Chicago Tribune Iris DeMent recorded her latest album in her living room in five days with a group of friends, which sounds just about right. DeMent bides her time between albums until she feels fully invested in the music, and then plunges into it without making a … New music releases for week of Aug. 7 |
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