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Music Appreciation

NBachers

(18,670 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:14 PM Jun 9

Wasteland of the Free - Iris DeMent-This song should have its own permanent posting somewhere on DU

Originally recorded in 1996; you can hear some dated references, but it's more powerful now than it ever was.

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Wasteland of the Free - Iris DeMent-This song should have its own permanent posting somewhere on DU (Original Post) NBachers Jun 9 OP

use to live (somewhat) near where Iris and family resided stopdiggin Jun 9 #1

stopdiggin

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1. use to live (somewhat) near where Iris and family resided

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Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:46 PM

Jun 9

(some years back)
And the great irony is/was - that Iris actually came from a greater 'wasteland' (crotchland?) than what that was ...
In any event - she's about as GD 'authentic' as anybody currently holding a guitar.

DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas,[2] the 14th and youngest child of Pat DeMent (1910–1992) and wife Flora Mae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_DeMent#:~:text=for%20that%20year.-,Personal%20life,six%20in%202005%20from%20Russia.

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