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Release Date: Aug 07, 2015
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Liner Note Authors: Greg Brown; Iris DeMent; Dasha Brown.
Iowan folksinger Iris DeMent returns with her ambitious sixth album, The Trackless Woods. Following up the warm-toned, Southern sounds of 2012's Sing the Delta, DeMent takes an unusual turn, adapting 18 poems by 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova to music using little more than her piano and tremulous voice. Additional strains of guitar, pedal steel, and dulcimer accompany these windswept, often tragic songs, which were captured over a period of five days by co-producer Richard Bennett in the singer's living room. Dark in tone and intimate in presentation, The Trackless Woods is unique in DeMent's catalog. ~ Timothy Monger
Iowan folksinger Iris DeMent returns with her ambitious sixth album, The Trackless Woods. Following up the warm-toned, Southern sounds of 2012's Sing the Delta, DeMent takes an unusual turn, adapting 18 poems by 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova to music using little more than her piano and tremulous voice. Additional strains of guitar, pedal steel, and dulcimer accompany these windswept, often tragic songs, which were captured over a period of five days by co-producer Richard Bennett in the singer's living room. Dark in tone and intimate in presentation, The Trackless Woods is unique in DeMent's catalog. ~ Timothy Monger
Tracks:
1 - To My Poems
2 - Broad Gold
3 - And This You Call Work
4 - From the Oriental Notebook
5 - Prayer
6 - Not With Deserters
7 - All Is Sold
8 - Reject the Burden
9 - From an Airplane
10 - Oh, How Good
11 - Like a White Stone
12 - Song About Songs
13 - Listening to Singing
14 - Lot's Wife
15 - Upon the Hard Crest
16 - Souls of all My Dears
17 - Last Toast
18 - Not With a Lover’s Lyre/Anna Akhmatova’s Recitation of “The Muse”
2 - Broad Gold
3 - And This You Call Work
4 - From the Oriental Notebook
5 - Prayer
6 - Not With Deserters
7 - All Is Sold
8 - Reject the Burden
9 - From an Airplane
10 - Oh, How Good
11 - Like a White Stone
12 - Song About Songs
13 - Listening to Singing
14 - Lot's Wife
15 - Upon the Hard Crest
16 - Souls of all My Dears
17 - Last Toast
18 - Not With a Lover’s Lyre/Anna Akhmatova’s Recitation of “The Muse”