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 ...

"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 ...

US country music singer and songwriter Iris DeMent announced to an audience in Madison, Wisconsin March 21 that she would not be performing while the US was pursuing its war against Iraq. DeMent, who ...

If you're an activist songwriter of a certain age who has fought the good fight for decades, does the current state of the world feed the Muse or make you wish you'd gone into an isolated career like ...

Iris DeMent is pulling double duty this weekend. The Paragould-born folk singer-songwriter performs Saturday in a variety show at Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater with authors ...

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 ...

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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." ...

"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, ...

Singer-songwriters Mason Jennings and Iris DeMent come together at the Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway, Friday night from different worlds. Fargo crowds know Jennings well as the Minneapolis-based bard ...

Iris DeMent is pulling double duty this weekend. The Paragould-born folk singer-songwriter performs Saturday in a variety show at Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater with authors ...