Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for her music with a message, singer-songwriter Iris DeMent will play World Records on Dec. 13. John Prine described ...

Iris DeMent doesn’t want to get adjusted to this world. She’s been telling us as much for 30 years. The 62-year-old singer-songwriter has spent her life in song, striving toward a sacred sense of ...

Iris DeMent’s voice and lyrics go straight to the heart of the matter. Her gospel and country music roots inform every verse and chorus. “There’s that first level of bravery, where you open your heart ...

"I really believe that I have been given an ability to deliver my songs," says the folk and country singer-songwriter Iris DeMent from her home in Iowa City, Iowa. "Not everybody's going to get them, ...

That Iris DeMent recorded and released just seven albums over the past 30 years suggests the singer and songwriter has an casual or unusual relationship with the music industry. DeMent works at a pace ...

The great Iris DeMent is back with Workin’ on a World, which will be out February 24 via Songs of Iris. It’s her first album in eight years, and her first of originals since 2011. She made the record ...

"Workin' on a World," the excellent and righteous seventh album by Arkansas native Iris DeMent, came out Feb. 24 to all sorts of critical acclaim. Sam Sodomsky, writing at pitchfork.com, likened the ...

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." ...

Over the last three decades, singer-songwriter Iris DeMent has gained a cult following of folk, gospel and country music fans. Folk veteran Iris DeMent shows us the 'World' she's been workin' on "I ...