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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The extraordinary absence of artifice in the music of Iris Dement required a confluence of nature and nurture, of wilderness and willpower. Born the youngest of 14 children in a family who’d lived for ...

One of my favorite Iris DeMent moments is her title-track duet with John Prine on his 1999 disc In Spite of Ourselves: “He ain’t got laid in a month of Sundays/I caught him once, and he was sniffin’ ...

"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, ...