Top Five Iris DeMent Albums
(I wrote about how important her music has been to me back in 2007 in an essay for the Oxford American. She recently contributed a new song to the Arts and Letters episode about my book The Ghost Variations. Here are my five favorite albums of hers, in order of preference.)
My Life
Infamous Angel
The Way I Should
Sing the Delta
In Spite of Ourselves (an album of John Prine duets; she’s featured on four tracks)
— January 7, 2021