Iris Dement-Sing The Delta-CD-FLAC-2012-FORSAKEN
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Artist : Iris DeMent
Album : Sing The Delta Label : Flariella Records Genre : Folk Source : CD Street Date : 2012-10-02 Quality : 801 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 351.15 MB
Time : 59:06 min Url : http://www.amazon.co…ris-Dement/dp/B
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1. Go On Ahead And Go Home 3:44 2. Before The Colors Fade 5:04 3. The Kingdom Has Already Come 4:40 4. The Night I Learned How Not To Pray 4:24 5. Sing The Delta 6:48 6. If That Aint Love 5:09 7. Livin On The Inside 3:24 8. Makin My Way Back Home 4:20 9. Mornin Glory 4:47 10. Theres A Whole Lotta Of Heaven 3:35 11. Mama Was Always Tellin Her Truth 5:21 12. Out Of The Fire 7:50
Iris DeMent isnt a pop star, although she probably could have
been had she been at all interested in playing that game. Shes a
careful, detailed songwriter with a confessional edge and a good
sense of narrative, and her voice is a marvelous instrument that
seems to rise out of the previous century. Her themes are
universal — love (both good and bad), loss, faith, memories —
and few singers or songwriters can convey the kind of passionate
emotional distance she brings to all of this. Sing the Delta (the
Arkansas delta, not the Mississippi one) is her first new album
of original material in 16 years (her previous album, 2004s
Lifeline, was a collection of her versions of the gospel hymns
she sang as a child), and it fits right into the quilt of her
earlier albums, full of searching, yearning songs that ache more
than they bounce for joy, all set to sparse, piano-led
arrangements that focus in and around her vocals without
intrusion. Like all of her albums, its down-key, wrenching
passion out of things long lost, and one cant help but be amazed
at the sincerity and desperation DeMent brings to every line she
sings here. The songs are well written, detailed, poetic, and
centered on her childhood, her father, her mother, her brothers
and sisters, all those ties and bonds one carries all through
life — all well and good, at least as confessionals go. The
problem here is that Sing the Delta sounds a bit like a great
short story writer singing autobiographical stories rather than
delivering songs. Theres little that moves one to sing along
here, unfortunately. The tempos are all slow, dramatic, and
melancholy. The one song that actually features a little bounce
in its rhythm, “The Night I Learned How Not to Pray,” is a sad,
harrowing account of a young brothers death, and while its a
great and emotionally effective song, it hardly feels redemptive.
Everything here seems to fade into the same slow waltz, and while
the lyrics shine, lyrics alone do not make for a good song. The
best here, like “The Night I Learned How Not to Pray,” the slow
gospel burn of the opener “Go on Ahead and Go Home,” “If That
Aint Love” (a portrait of DeMents father), the spunky and wise
“Mama Was Always Tellin Her Truth” (a portrait of her mother),
and the beautiful “Theres a Whole Lotta Heaven,” have choruses
that rise out of their stories and connect — one can actually
sing along with them, which is the quickest way to bring a song
into anothers life. Too often Sing the Delta sounds like a
poetry reading with great lines, wonderful metaphors, and a
hard-earned wisdom on display — a bit like Dolly Parton if she
had gone to Harvard — and theres no denying the talent,
sincerity, and craft on display here. But a song is most a song
when someone else can sing along to it, pull it into her or his
own life, and make it speak inside that life, and there just
isnt a whole lot of that on this album, impressive as it is.
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