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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. iris-newalbum2 - Credit: Dasha Brown* “I kept hearing a lot of talk about the arc of history that Dr. King so famously said bends ...

Iris DeMent is set to release her first album in 16 years, called Sing The Delta, on October 2nd, but she treated us to a live preview of a few of the new songs in an FUV Live show at The Living Room.

"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, ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Iris Dement draws on her upbringing in Arkansas for inspiration for her new album, Sing the Delta. It's her first release in 16 years. Changing genres now to American ...

Iris Dement’s new album is both right in line with all the music she’s ever made and unlike anything else she’s accomplished in an already iconoclastic career. What makes "The Trackless Woods" ...

Midway through the 90-minute set of her second sold-out night at the Cactus Cafe last weekend, Iris DeMent admitted she expected to have a backing band, but that recent bad weather on the East Coast ...

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 ...

Iris DeMent is speaking by phone from a converted garage in the backyard of her Iowa City home, containing a piano, a small table, a voice recorder, and other things songwriters might use to write ...