Celebrated singer/songwriter Iris DeMent releases the hopeful track “The Sacred Now” from her long-awaited upcoming album Workin’ On A World. Written with Pieta Brown, “The Sacred Now ...

Iris DeMent, who made her recording debut 20 years ago with Infamous Angel, an album of acoustic, old-time country music that Rolling Stone named one of the essential recordings of the '90s, will ...

The singer-songwriter Iris DeMent’s first three albums arrived like clockwork, every two years, through the heart of the mid-nineteen-nineties. Each album featured bittersweet stories of blue ...

3.5 stars (out of 4) Iris DeMent made a dramatic impression in the ’90s with two stark albums that blended hard-core country and gospel, sparse string-band arrangements and a pristine voice.