Iris DeMent - Lifeline
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Artist: Iris DeMentBrand: Iris
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Music Label: Flariella Records
Soundtracks:
- I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart
- Blessed Assurance
- Fill My Way With Love
- Hide Thou Me
- The Old Gospel Ship
- Sweet Hour of Prayer
- That Glad Reunion Day
- Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
- He Reached Down
- Near The Cross
- I Never Shall Forget The Day
- I Don't Want To Get Adjusted
- God Walks The Dark Hills
Music reviews of Lifeline
Music Review: Old Time Religion
Rating: 5 Stars
Back before megachurches with 10,000 voice amplified praise choirs repeating "Bless you, Jesus" 10,000 times, before slimy televangelists-back when Jesus was in your heart and not 'in your face', decent hard-working people all over America lived simple and often very hard lives and these were the songs they sang at church on Sunday and at Wednesday night prayer meeting. They sang the same songs as they went about their lives. My mother, who was from the hills of Kentucky, sang hymns when she was ironing, cooking, and cleaning. Their belief in God gave them peace in the present and hope for the future. Their songs and their God helped them survive. Perhaps that's why I find the music on this CD so moving. The difference between this music and contemporary Christian coliseum music is the difference between sharing a Vision and delivering a message, the difference between bedrock faith and hollow spectacle. Besides, I am obsessed-you might say-with American Roots Music and the many ways it reflects our great mongrel nation and the songs Iris sings here come from the heart of America.
Iris DeMent has the homeliest, the most ragged and tattered voice I've heard this side of Johnny Cash. And just like Mister Cash's off-kilter baritone, her voice is one of the most beautiful and powerful sounds to ever emerge from the human animal. To paraphrase Ms DeMent in her liner notes, the songs are not about religion. For me, the combination of singers, musicians, and music on this CD are all about the triumph of the human spirit. She manages to conjure up the Carter family, Jimmy Rogers, The Grapes Of Wrath, and the tiny weary voice of every hardscabble man and woman who ever stood in a little church and prayed for the strength to get a little farther down the road. Besides, she sings as good as my mother.
Description of Lifeline
Although there's only one new original on Iris DeMent's first release in eight years, the music throughout ranks with the most personal she has made. DeMent's quavering vocals invest this collection of traditional spirituals with an unwavering conviction. "This is my story," she sings on "Blessed Assurance," written more than 130 years ago. "This is my song." In her liner notes, the Arkansas-raised artist explains how these were the first songs she remembers hearing, and that this music has always provided comfort during hard times, a comfort that isn't necessarily (or at least not narrowly) religious. On "Sweet Hour of Prayer" and "God Walks the Dark Hills," DeMent accompanies herself on stately solo piano, and the emotion is as pure as the arrangement is unadorned. On other tracks, DeMent and co-producer Jim Rooney enlist homespun support from kindred spirits such as guitarists Mark Howard and Bo Ramsey and a call-and-response chorus of harmonizers including Stuart Duncan. The self-penned composition, "He Reached Down," is a folkish recasting of the Biblical "Good Samaritan" parable. Even listeners who don't share the faith expressed in these songs will have trouble resisting the unflinching intimacy of the performances. --Don McLeeseCountry Gospel CDs
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