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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Nice Graywolf photos

A few nice graywolf images I found:

Gray Wolf
graywolf
Image by digitalART2

Polarwolf
graywolf
Image by Joachim S. Müller
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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarwolf im Wildpark Alte Fasanerie bei Hanau / Klein-Auheim

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Wolf in the fasanerie Hanau.

canis lupus arctos

Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
graywolf
Image by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith
Our tour group stays at the North Face Lodge in Denali. With their own naturalists and bus fleet we get to spend a lot of time watching wildlife. This lone wolf walked the road well ahead of us for two miles (just west of the Eilson VC). It took a short detour going after an adult moose before returning to the road for more photographs…

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.

http://amzn.to/1Hgm1Uo

http://apple.co/1Sd2vbO

Arctic & Timber Wolf Habitat

Check out these timber wolf images:

Arctic & Timber Wolf Habitat
timber wolf
Image by Snap Man
"There are two Arctic, and two Timber Wolves that live in this 3.5 acre habitat. Newly rescued Wolves are placed in introduction areas adjacent to this habitat, so they can spend some time getting used to the sights and sounds of the Sanctuary. Once new Wolves feel comfortable with their surroundings, and have had a chance to meet the other Wolves through their enclosure fence, they are released to roam and live freely within the habitat. Wolves are highly social animals and live in Packs with one Alpha Male and one Alpha Female leading the rest of the Pack. Some of the Wolves in this habitat weigh as much as 140 pounds, and can live up to 15 years in captivity." Wild Animal Sanctuary, September 1, 2012

Eastern Timber Wolves (Canis lupus lycaon) sleeping
timber wolf
Image by warriorwoman531
The Eastern Timber Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) was the first subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to be recognized in the United States. Canis lupus lycaon inhabited the eastern portions of the United States and southeastern parts of Canada. The Eastern Wolf is smaller than the Gray Wolf. It has a pale greyish-brown pelt. The back and the sides are covered with long, black hairs. Behind the ears, there is a slight reddish color.

Photographed at Wildlife Prairie State Park in Illinois.