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Iris Dement - Infamous Angel Audio CD

A fair review of the Iris Dement "Infamous Angel" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Iris Dement reviews here, or go back to the Iris Dement tabs.

Iris Dement Band: Iris Dement
Title: Infamous Angel
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Release Date: 1993-05-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Let the Mystery Be 2: These Hills 3: Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart 4: When Love Was Young 5: Our Town 6: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room 7: Infamous Angel 8: Sweet Forgiveness 9: After You're Gone 10: Mama's Opry 11: Higher Ground

Not as good as I expected.
Our Town is a great song, as are a few of the others, but overall if I'd heard the CD before buying it I probably wouldn't have. Iris Dement has a wonderful voice, but on this CD she does a lot of songs that don't suit her voice at all.


Iris DeMent - Used CD
This CD was used, but flawless. Iris Dement has an unusual voice that is easy to listen to. The songs are original and catchy. Her mother even sings a song, but I'm not sure she needed to be on there. I would have liked the CD better without her.


Excellent debut
Both in delivery and accent, she recreates a lost era in country music, before the rock-n-roll influence. She may consider herself primarily a songwriter, but Iris' caught-out-of-time vocals are the central attraction here. No drums here. If you're looking for a "sounds like. . . " comparison, the best I can do is Nanci Griffith or Loretta Lynn: uniquely and endearingly twangy.

The songs themselves are a mixed bag. Three or four are memorable, which is about what a decent album shoots for. Her signature rural decay song "Our Town" is here. The opener "Let The Mystery Be" declares her agnosticism toward religion, but most of the other songs drip with southern Baptist values, most notably the closer "Higher Ground" on which Iris yields lead vocals to her mother. Overall, this is the sort of album that helps to complete any well-rounded music collection.


My Arkie Angel
Iris Dement. Frankly, and I admit this publicly for the first time in this space, I love Ms. Not personally, of course, but through her voice, her lyrics and her musical presence. This `confession' may seem rather startling coming from a reviewer who is as likely in this space to go on and on about Bolsheviks, `Che', Leon Trotsky, high communist theory and the like. And that is especially so given Ms. Dement's seemingly simple quasi- religious themes and commitment to paying homage to her rural background in song. All such discrepancies though go out the window here. Why?

Well, for one, this old radical got a lump in his throat the first time he heard "These Hills". Okay, that happens sometimes-once- but why did he have the same reaction on the fifth and twelfth hearings? Explain that. I can easily enough. If, on the very, very remotest chance, there is a heaven then I know one of the choir members. Enough said. By the way give a listen to "Sweet Forgiveness" and "After You've Gone" (with that great line about knowing every line in her lover's face). Then you too will be in love with Ms. Iris Dement. Iris, here is my proposal. If you get tired of fishing the U. P. , or wherever, with Mr. Greg Brown or get bored with his endless twaddle about old Iowa farms or the contents of Granma's root cellar just whistle. Better yet just yodel like you did when I first heard you on that "Jimmie Rodgers Going Home" song on the "Driftless" CD.
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. Iris Dement is one of the best voices I have ever listened too, so glad I have Amazon to be able to find things that you wouldn't find just anywhere, great condition when received, excellent quality.


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