Some people turn to comfort food for solace. Iris DeMent turns to comfort songs. At least she has on "Lifeline," her first album in eight years and one that finds her revisiting the church music of ...
"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 ...
On "He Reached Down," the only song she wrote on her first album in eight years, Iris DeMent draws on Biblical stories to create her own modern parable. There's the Good Samaritan, who helps a ...