Known for her music with a message, singer-songwriter Iris DeMent will play World ... In her latest album, 2023's "Workin' On A World," DeMent acknowledges our current struggles — climate ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three women have new albums out. And our rock critic, Ken Tucker, has chosen a standout song from each of them. Whether it's the folk protest music of Iris DeMent, the cutting-edge blues of Sunny ...

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 ...

Two-time Grammy-nominated Iris DeMent has elements of folk ... in 1992 and explored such themes as religious skepticism, small-town life, and human frailty. It was recently named by “Rolling ...

I went looking in our archives for an interview I did with Iris DeMent a couple of years ago. I couldn't find it, so I widened my search, going back a couple more years. Still nothing. Third time ...

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 ...