Growing up as the youngest of 14 children, singer Iris DeMent and her family attended a Pentecostal church, which taught that each person would get a calling from God. DeMent remembers waiting in vain ...

OLD SAYBROOK >> One of America’s great songwriters, Iris DeMent, makes a rare appearance in these parts Friday night with a show at The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center. Blessed also with a pure ...

Folk and country artist Iris DeMent came out of the gates strong in the early 1990s, launching a career as a singer-songwriter and releasing three critically lauded albums between 1992 and 1996. Along ...

"Workin' on a World," the excellent and righteous seventh album by Arkansas native Iris DeMent, came out Feb. 24 to all sorts of critical acclaim. Sam Sodomsky, writing at pitchfork.com, likened the ...

There's not much new about Iris DeMent. She hasn't released an album in seven years, for one thing. And even when she warbles material unfamiliar to her longtime fans, as she occasionally did at the ...

The singer and songwriter, 62, takes her time between releases, making sure she has something to say in her music. She has found inspiration once again. By Stephen Deusner While writing songs for her ...

Iris DeMent more than made up for having to postpone her May 25 show. She fell ill following her arrival in Little Rock and wasn’t able to perform what was intended to be the inaugural concert at the ...