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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Iris DeMent |
| Record Label: |
Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Emmylou Harris |
| Genre: |
Country |
| Subgenre: |
Singer/Songwriter |
| Release Date: |
May 04, 1993 |
| Album Duration: |
38m:28s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Let the Mystery Be
2. These Hills
3. Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart
4. When Love Was Young
5. Our Town
6. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
7. Infamous Angel (with Jerry Douglas)
8. Sweet Forgiveness
9. After You're Gone
10. Mama's Opry (with Emmylou Harris)
11. Higher Ground (with The Infamous Angel Choir, featuring Hal Ketchum) |
| More Information |
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Personnel: Iris DeMent (vocals, acoustic guitar); Emmylou Harris, Hal Ketchum, Flora Mae DeMent (vocals); Mark Howard (acoustic guitar); Jerry Douglas, Al Perkins (dobro); Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin); Pete Wasner (piano); Roy Husky, Jr. (acoustic bass); Jim Rooney, Jim Rooney, Jeff Black (background vocals). Recorded at The Cowboy Arms Hotel & Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by John Prine and Iris DeMent. To many fans, Iris DeMent's debut INFAMOUS ANGEL remains the best work of her career. Unlike her later records, which sometimes get mired in political dogmatism and bleak melancholy, INFAMOUS ANGEL is the work of a wide-eyed innocent extolling the simple virtues of love, faith, and home. From the whimsical spiritualism of "Let the Mystery Be" to the brisk love song "Hotter Than Mojave in my Heart" through to the album's closing affirmation of faith (the traditional gospel classic "Higher Ground"), INFAMOUS ANGEL evokes a world full of promise and possibility. Best of all a... |
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