"Iris DeMent makes music that celebrates humanity’s efforts toward salvation, while acknowledging that most of our time on Earth is spent reconciling with the fact that we don’t feel so redeemed." ~ NPR

You can’t mistake her voice. Only Iris DeMent sounds like Iris DeMent. Once you listen to a few of her songs, you feel like you know her. She’s serious, but she has a playful sense of humor – and she is absolutely committed to telling the truth. No affectation, no sugar-coating, just life as she sees it and feels it – and she feels it more than most. Merle Haggard has called her “the best singer I ever heard.”