Iris Dement - Infamous Angel
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Free Music Review: Excellent debut
Hit: 4 Stars
She may consider herself primarily a songwriter, but Iris' caught-out-of-time vocals are the central attraction here. Both in delivery and accent, she recreates a lost era in country music, before the rock-n-roll influence. No drums here. If you're looking for a "sounds like..." comparison, the best I can do is Nanci Griffith or Loretta Lynn: uniquely and endearingly twangy.
The songs themselves are a mixed bag. Three or four are memorable, which is about what a decent album shoots for. Her signature rural decay song "Our Town" is here. The opener "Let The Mystery Be" declares her agnosticism toward religion, but most of the other songs drip with southern Baptist values, most notably the closer "Higher Ground" on which Iris yields lead vocals to her mother. Overall, this is the sort of album that helps to complete any well-rounded music collection.
Free Music Review: My Arkie Angel
Hit: 5 Stars
Frankly, and I admit this publicly for the first time in this space, I love Ms. Iris Dement. Not personally, of course, but through her voice, her lyrics and her musical presence. This `confession' may seem rather startling coming from a reviewer who is as likely in this space to go on and on about Bolsheviks, `Che', Leon Trotsky, high communist theory and the like. And that is especially so given Ms. Dement's seemingly simple quasi- religious themes and commitment to paying homage to her rural background in song. All such discrepancies though go out the window here. Why?
Well, for one, this old radical got a lump in his throat the first time he heard "These Hills". Okay, that happens sometimes-once- but why did he have the same reaction on the fifth and twelfth hearings? Explain that. I can easily enough. If, on the very, very remotest chance, there is a heaven then I know one of the choir members. Enough said. By the way give a listen to "Sweet Forgiveness" and "After You've Gone" (with that great line about knowing every line in her lover's face). Then you too will be in love with Ms. Iris Dement. Iris, here is my proposal. If you get tired of fishing the U.P., or wherever, with Mr. Greg Brown or get bored with his endless twaddle about old Iowa farms or the contents of Granma's root cellar just whistle. Better yet just yodel like you did when I first heard you on that "Jimmie Rodgers Going Home" song on the "Driftless" CD.
Free Music Review: CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Iris Dement is one of the best voices I have ever listened too, so glad I have Amazon to be able to find things that you wouldn't find just anywhere, great condition when received, excellent quality.
Free Music Review: Iris clear-eyed
Hit: 4 Stars
Iris Dement's first LP (CD) is like .....
when I was a boy, a young teenager, I sat in the back seat of a dirty white Dodge station wagon with an older step -sister that I hardly knew + an arguing my mother and a step-father drinking driving while we traveled 500+ miles from CA to OR to see his ex-wife and my mother's best friend.
Iris sings like that.
Free Music Review: Iris DeMents is definitely a modern folk treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
i just stumbled on to this album and it was love at first. real folk music of the highest caliber can't believe its been around for fifteen years and i never heard any of it miss DeMent writes and sings the stuff and almost every tracks excellent i love all types of music as long as their tastefully done and this definitely fits the criteria