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Infamous Angel | 
| Artist: Iris Dement
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 2083
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45238
UPC: 093624523826
EAN: 0093624523826
ASIN: B000002MJ5
Release Date: May 25, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Let the Mystery Be | | • | These Hills | | • | Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart | | • | When Love Was Young | | • | Our Town | | • | Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Iris DeMent, McGee, F.W. | | • | Infamous Angel | | • | Sweet Forgiveness | | • | After You're Gone | | • | Mama's Opry | | • | Higher Ground - Iris DeMent, Traditional |
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Amazon.com
Artists like Iris DeMent aren't supposed to exist anymore in this cynical world. Singing unironically about family, forgiveness, and other real-life mysteries, DeMent is accompanied on this great debut by little more than acoustic guitar, upright bass, piano, and an occasional fiddle. But the songs (especially the bittersweet "Our Town" and the grand dreams of "Mama's Opry") are more than smart and honest enough to bear standing so naked. And her singing--highlighting a sweet Ozark twang--is that rarest of gifts: a wise, friendly voice that can break your heart even as it's making it swell with a reason to love again. --David Cantwell
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
My Arkie Angel December 17, 2008
Alfred Johnson (boston, ma)
Frankly, and I admit this publicly for the first time in this space, I love Ms. Iris Dement. 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.
CD October 6, 2008
Larry E. Bowers (Elizabethton, TN USA)
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.
 Iris clear-eyed September 27, 2008
Robert S. Estes (Santa Rosa, Ca)
Iris Dement's first LP (CD) is like .....
when I was a boy, a young teenager, I sat in the back seat of a dirty white Dodge station wagon with an older step -sister that I hardly knew + an arguing my mother and a step-father drinking driving while we traveled 500+ miles from CA to OR to see his ex-wife and my mother's best friend.
Iris sings like that.
Iris DeMents is definitely a modern folk treasure July 5, 2008
fortune cookie (clermont fl.)
i just stumbled on to this album and it was love at first. real folk music of the highest caliber can't believe its been around for fifteen years and i never heard any of it miss DeMent writes and sings the stuff and almost every tracks excellent i love all types of music as long as their tastefully done and this definitely fits the criteria
Don't let it pass you by September 17, 2007
C. Woods
Had the great pleasure of hearing Iris Dement live last nite in a concert in a small club here in Bloomington, IN. Her sweet twangy voice coupled with her honest (joltingly at times) lyrics, her calm, and at times very funny stage presence, made for one great evening. If you get the chance to see her perform live near you, get there, now. You won't regret it. Opening for her was Jason Wilbur, a lead guitarist for John Prine, and a talented singer/musician in his own right. A truly magical evening. This CD is wonderful for many reasons, all stated here by others quite succinctly. You spend more then this every week at Starbucks-buy this CD and learn for yourself why her reviews are all so good.
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