![]() ![]() ![]() Workin' On A World, her seventh album, started with the worry that woke DeMent up after the 2016 elections: how can we survive this? “Every day some new trauma was being added to the old ones that kept repeating themselves, and like everybody else, I was just trying to bear up under it all,” she recalls. Fittingly, she received the Americana Music Trailblazer Award in 2017. DeMent’s songs have also been featured in film (True Grit) and television (The Leftovers) and recorded by numerous artists. From there, DeMent released three records on her own label, Flariella Records, the most recent of which, The Trackless Woods (2015), was hailed as “a quietly powerful triumph” by The Guardian. Her debut record Infamous Angel, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, was recently named one of the “greatest country albums of all time” byRolling Stone, and the two albums that followed, My Life and The Way I Should, were both nominated for GRAMMYs. With an inimitable voice as John Prine described, "like you've heard, but not really," and unforgettable melodies rooted in hymns, gospel, and old country music, she's simply one of the finest singer-songwriters in America as well as one of our fiercest advocates for human rights. Her songs are her way of healing our broken inner and outer spaces. On her transcendent new record, Workin' On A World, Iris DeMent faces the modern world - as it is right now - with its climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice - and not only asks us how we can keep working towards a better world, but implores us to love each other, despite our very different ways of seeing. ![]()
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