Cincinnati CityBeat (blog)

Sound Advice: Iris DeMent with Sam Baker (May 4)
Cincinnati CityBeat (blog)
After focusing on raising the daughter she and her husband, singer/songwriter Greg Brown, adopted in 2005, DeMent returned in 2012 with Sing the Delta, her first album of original material in 16 years. For DeMent's 2015 album The Trackless Woods, she

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Cleveland Scene

Singer-Songwriter Iris DeMent Comes to Feed the Souls of Cleveland's Americana Lovers at the Music Box Supper Club
Cleveland Scene
Iris DeMent is from Arkansas, and that means she and her 13 siblings grew up singing in a classic Bible-belt Pentecostal church. It means she has an affinity for Charles Portis, the famed novelist who also hails from that state. So it makes sense that

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NWAOnline

Arkansas' True Grit author celebrated
NWAOnline
It was an evening celebrating Charles Portis and the 50th anniversary of his novel True Grit at Music, Voices & Double-Rectified Busthead: A True Grit Variety Show. The April 21 event was held at Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater
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Arkansas Online

Music: Native singer DeMent helps fete Grit, then does solo set
Arkansas Online
Iris DeMent is pulling double duty this weekend. The Paragould-born folk singer-songwriter performs Saturday in a variety show at Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater with authors Harrison Scott Key, Calvin Trillin, Roy Blount Jr. and

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cleveland.com

45 Cleveland concerts to check out in May 2018: Jimmy Buffett, Modest Mouse, BROCKHAMPTON, more
cleveland.com
… May 27 The summer season starts even earlier at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, with a Friday, May 4, show by electronic dance do Odesza. In addition to those outdoor concerts, there are plenty of standout shows taking place inside, too. That includes

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Cincinnati.com

Things to do this week in Cincinnati: May 1-6
Cincinnati.com
Iris DeMent, 8 p.m., Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. With Sam Baker. $ 20-$ 40. 513-977-8837; memorialhallotr.com. May the Fourth Be With You Episode III: An Art Tribute Show to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, 6-11 p.m., The Brew House, 1047 E

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Folk Radio UK (blog)

Jess Vincent: Lions Den
Folk Radio UK (blog)
There's also something of an Americana/country influence at times (some decidedly twangsome electric guitar on Follow and the sensuous Holiday, for instance), while some of Jess's vocal work may recall Iris Dement, especially on the beautiful back

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Charleston Post Courier

Charleston playlist: Guitar player Scottie Frier shares his top 5 songs
Charleston Post Courier
Scottie Frier teaches private guitar lessons out of Shem Creek Music in Mount Pleasant. He also toured with local Americana band The Travelin' Kine for the past two and a half years, plays with Charleston-turned-Nashville country artist Page Mackenzie

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Chicago Tribune

What to tell a sick friend who asks, 'Is there a heaven?'
Chicago Tribune
But I told her what I could honestly say, that as the people I love vanish from my physical universe, I'm drawn, in defiance of my beliefs, to the images conjured in songs and stories of the dead who have gone not to heaven, but to that otherworldly

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