Iris DeMent

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Iris DeMent

media release: Celebrated singer/songwriter Iris DeMent releases her long-awaited album Workin’ On A World Feb. 24, along with newest single “Warriors of Love.” The inspiring song highlights the unflinching courage of activists over the years and the bravery of ordinary folks still doing that work, every day.  DeMent sings, “They get right up to Goliath / And shoot their shot somehow / Now it’s on us to be worthy of / Our great warriors of love.” Listen to “Warriors of Love” and Workin’ On A World HERE.

Press has raved about DeMent and Workin’ On A World. Accolades include:

"Workin’ on a World is ultimately rooted in the same fundamental project DeMent has been engaged in from the very beginning of her career: drawing secular, spiritual strength from gospel music, telling mystical stories about community and perseverance and finding meaning amidst modern alienation in the meantime. It’s just that now, more than ever before, DeMent is urging us to sing along with her."                                                                                                                                – Rolling Stone

"This is a very personal letter about the moment we all share, and it demands hearing.”        

                                                                                                                                         – The Wall Street Journal                                                                      

“Iris DeMent is fiery, energized, angry and invigorated on this long-awaited return.”                                                                                                                                         

– Holler

“Her fiercest offering since 1996’s landmark The Way I Should and a long overdue follow up to that album’s righteous ire.”                                                                                      – 4 stars MOJO  

DeMent will take Workin’ On A World on the road starting March 9; a full list of tour dates is irisdement.com.

Iris Dement’s debut album Infamous Angel in 1992 has been hailed as one of Rolling Stone’s Greatest Country Albums of All Time and one of Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the 1990s. DeMent has earned numerous Grammy nominations and awards, along with the respect of peers/collaborators John Prine, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and others.  The Guardian has called her “one of the finest singer-songwriters in America,” while NPR called her “one of the great voices in contemporary popular music.”