Iris Luella ... in which DeMent implores "Use me up while I am living, Lord / Let's not leave nothin' for the dead." She returned, guitar in hand, for her popular agnostic ballad "Let the Mystery Be," ...

The singer-songwriter Iris DeMent’s first three albums arrived ... dreams of becoming a country singer, or the elegiac “Our Town” were startled, even angered, when she included the righteous ...

Iris DeMent more than made up for having to postpone ... “Let the Mystery Be” (with a fine bass solo by Draper) and “Our Town,” on which DeMent encouraged fans to join in, and most were ...

Iris DeMent is feeling the strain of living ... To this day I feel so blessed that [her breakthrough song, Our Town] picked me so I could do that.” Although she began to doubt her Pentecostal ...

Arkansas native Iris DeMent was announced as a headliner for ... The 1995 series finale of "Northern Exposure" featured her song “Our Town” from "Infamous Angel." DeMent, who has performed ...

"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 ...

With grace, courage, and soul, Iris shares 13 anthems — love songs, really — to and for our broken inner and outer worlds. The result is not despair, but a luminous kind of hope. DeMent sets ...

By Stephen Deusner While writing songs for her seventh album, “Workin’ on a World,” Iris ... our living room and thinking, ‘I hope the grown-ups are listening to this man.’” DeMent ...