Iris Dement - Infamous Angel
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Rolling Stone Rating: 4.5
Plainly beautiful, Iris DeMent's voice has the high country clarity rarely heard these days -- it would sound perfect whispering from a fireside Victrola. Her songs exert a similar insinuating pull, wrapping the listener first in gossamer, then binding with emotional force. Her words, gifted with the deceptively simple grace of a Southern Baptist hymn ("Like the flowers I am fading/Into my setting sun"), convey the universal truths of myth. Her concerns -- family, forgiveness, death and life here and beyond -- are those of an equal timelessness. "Mama's Opry," about her mother's dream of singing at the...
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