Iris DeMent-Lifeline-CD-FLAC-2004-ERP

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     Artist  | Iris DeMent
     Title   | Lifeline
     Genre   | Folk-Rock                            Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 52:01
     Label   | Flariella Records                    Store   | 2004
     Catalog | FER-1004                             Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 791 kbps                             Size    | 302.10 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart                 3:04
     02. Blessed Assurance                                           6:26
     03. Fill My Way With Love                                       3:02
     04. Hide Thou Me                                                5:09
     05. The Old Gospel Ship                                         3:10
     06. Sweet Hour Of Prayer                                        5:09
     07. That Glad Reunion Day                                       2:10
     08. Leaning On The Everlasting Arms                             2:53
     09. He Reached Down                                             4:12
     10. Near The Cross                                              5:03
     11. I Never Shall Forget The Day                                2:42
     12. I Don't Want To Get Adjusted                                3:38
     13. God Walks The Dark Hills                                    5:23
 Notes  
     One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day,
     singer/songwriter Iris DeMent was born on January 5, 1961, in rural
     Paragould, Arkansas, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her
     devoutly religious family moved to California, where she grew up singing
     gospel music; during her teenaged years, however, she was first exposed to
     country, folk, and R&B, drawing influence from Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash,
     Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Upon graduating high school, she relocated to
     Kansas City to attend college.
     On the surface, "Lifeline", DeMent's return to recording after an
     eight-year hiatus, is a collection of age-old gospel and church tunes from
     the 19th century - or earlier - in the grand Protestant tradition. He liner
     notes tell a different story. She recounts how her mother played and sang
     these songs in times of stress looking straight at the sky, 'as if she were
     talking to someone'. She claims that for her, too, the music contained here
     became her lifeline through a season of hardship, and that when calling her
     mother from the road in difficult straits, she was told to get to a piano.
     Dement's raw, high lonesome voice is as out of time as the material, though
     these presentations are not exactly rough-hewn. They are plaintive but
     polished with accompaniment from a host of players, including Bo Ramsey,
     Mark Howard, Stu Basore, Stuart Duncan, and others. Dement plays piano on
     some tracks, guitar on others. ForDement they may indeed represent places
     of comfort in the midst of despair and desolation, yet for the casual
     observer, they feel like simply-rendered, distinguished readings of
     familiar spirituals.
     Dement goes out of her way to distance herself from the religion spoken of
     in these pieces, saying in her notes that the songs represent something
     bigger than that to her, but to the listener they come off as reverent and
     quaint, hardly the stuff of earthshaking experience. It is only on "Sweet
     Hour of Prayer," where Dement accompanies herself on piano, that the notion
     of shelter from the storm comes through brilliantly and unmistakably. There
     is one new song here, an original called "He Reached Down" recorded with
     Ramsey, that reaches the heights of Infamous Angel or "My Life".
     The narrative, though biblical, is saturated in Dement's singular
     storytelling manner, where her voice reaches into the grain of the material
     and pulls at its mystery until its emotion and truth become unfettered and
     fall free. While this is far from a full return to form for Dement, it is
     truly good to have her back.

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38M	02-iris_dement-blessed_assurance.flac
20M	03-iris_dement-fill_my_way_with_love.flac
25M	04-iris_dement-hide_thou_me.flac
21M	05-iris_dement-the_old_gospel_ship.flac
26M	06-iris_dement-sweet_hour_of_prayer.flac
14M	07-iris_dement-that_glad_reunion_day.flac
15M	08-iris_dement-leaning_on_the_everlasting_arms.flac
24M	09-iris_dement-he_reached_down.flac
25M	10-iris_dement-near_the_cross.flac
18M	11-iris_dement-i_never_shall_forget_the_day.flac
23M	12-iris_dement-i_dont_want_to_get_adjusted.flac
25M	13-iris_dement-god_walks_the_dark_hills.flac
289M	total