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A creative songwriter, Iris DeMent's fans waited sixteen years for her latest album, Sing The Delta, to be released. The Grammy nominated artist has enjoyed success with songs like the MTV Unplugged ...

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 ...

Steve Earle sang her praises, David Byrne and Natalie Merchant covered her music, and Merle Haggard famously said she was the best singer he’d ever heard. Her 1992 debut album, “Infamous Angel,” ...

This is FRESH AIR. The singer and songwriter Iris DeMent has a new album in which she set to music a collection of poems by the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova, who lived from 1889 to 1966. DeMent was ...

During uncertain times, music is a balm and creative connective tissue provides hope when it’s needed most. It’s a sentiment Iris DeMent deeply feels and is a driving force behind her latest studio ...

Iris DeMent is from Arkansas, and that means she and her 13 siblings grew up singing in a classic Bible-belt Pentecostal church. It means she has an affinity for Charles Portis, the famed novelist who ...

LITTLE ROCK — When it all goes dark and I start losing vision … I gotta go back to telling my truth. Iris DeMent, “Mama Was Always Telling Her Truth” Sometimes we make too much of tenuous connections.

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... Poetry Is Set To Melody In Iris DeMent's 'The ...