#Iris DeMent

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[hardcorestitchcorps]

Quote from Iris Dement's song Easy's Getting Harder Every Day. Pattern for sale here.

[opspro2005]

Wasteland of the Free

I’d marry Iris right this minute if she’d lower her standards enough to have me. Check out her catalog/YouTube channel,  She’s an absolute American Treasure

[dinosaursr66]

Legends sing the quintessential duet.

SONG OF THE DAY - Tuesday, November 21, 2023

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: 10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition)

Though she kind of screwed her bandmates, Natalie Merchant gave 10,000 Maniacs the best consolation prize they’ve could’ve hoped for.

What turned out to be Merchant’s final gig found the Maniacs - augmented with strings, woodwinds, extra singers, guitars, banjo, mandolin and keys - playing “MTV Unplugged” on April 21, 1993. And though their singer was gone by the time it was released, the recording gave the group its most-successful album, a huge hit in the Bruce Springsteen-cum-Patti Smith cover “Because the Night” and what are to many the definitive versions of such originals as “These are Days,” “Candy Everybody Wants,” “Like the Weather” and others.

Twenty-one years down the line, MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition) revisits the the LP and tacks on three Merchant-David Byrne duets left off the original release.

And while they don’t entirely fit with Unplugged’s sonic motif, the searching agnosticism of Iris DeMent’s “Let the Mystery Be,” Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s country-rock shuffle “Dallas” and Dolly Patron’s “Jolene,” on which Byrne mostly lays out after singing co-leads on the preceding tracks, come at the right time.

And with that, 10,000 Maniacs’ masterpiece is slightly more masterful.

Grade card: MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition) - A

11/20/24

[nabakovian]

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day One Thousand and Ninety

She don't like her eggs all runny She thinks crossin' her legs is funny She looks down her nose at money She gets it on like the Easter Bunny She's my baby, I'm her honey I'm never gonna let her go

He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies He ain't too sharp, but he gets things done Drinks his beer like it's oxygen He's my baby and I'm his honey I'm never gonna let him go

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Warriors of Love by Iris DeMent

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Susan Tedeschi - Sweet Forgiveness

[brightfametexan]

John Prine - (We're Not) The Jet Set - In Spite of Ourselves

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[musiconspotify]

Iris DeMent

Workin’ On A World (2023) …  meant to inspire …

#IrisDeMent

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[dinosaursr66]

John Prine is a great way to say goodbye to Summer.

SONG OF THE DAY - September 3, 2023

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Sarah Jarosz and the Brother Brothers feat. Nick and Helen Forster - “In Spite of Ourselves” (eTown)

Cheeky and ribald, “In Spite of Ourselves” is one of those songs that somehow comes across as innocent.

Onstage at eTown, Sarah Jarosz, the Brother Brothers and Nick and Helen Forster rendered Iris DeMent and John Prine’s latent classic in a playful manner that included a round-robin of acoustic guitar, piano, octave mandolin and fiddle solos. The vocals went similarly around the horn and, ultimately, in to the audience.

The result is a gem that’ll have big ol’ hearts dancing in listeners’ ears.

Grade card: Sarah Jarosz and the Brother Brothers feat. Nick and Helen Forster - “In Spite of Ourselves” (eTown) - A

7/29/24