My Life (Iris DeMent album) explained

My Life
Type:Album
Artist:Iris DeMent
Cover:MyLifeIrisDeMentalbumcover.png
Released:1994
Recorded:Cowboy Arms (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:Country folk
Length:42:29
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:Jim Rooney
Prev Title:Infamous Angel
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:The Way I Should
Next Year:1996

My Life is the second album released by singer-songwriter Iris DeMent.[1] [2] Released in 1994 on Warner Bros., it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

The album was dedicated to her father, Patric Shaw DeMent, who died in 1992.

Critical reception

Spin ranked My Life as the 3rd best album of 1994. Writing in Spin, Eric Weisbard described the album as "...unbreakable gentleness as a modern epiphany about rural values."[3]

The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.

Track listing

All songs by Iris DeMent except as indicated.

Side one

  1. "Sweet Is the Melody" – 3:41
  2. "You've Done Nothing Wrong" – 4:22
  3. "Calling for You" – 3:18
  4. "Childhood Memories" – 4:38
  5. "No Time to Cry" – 6:49

Side two

  1. "Troublesome Waters" (Maybelle Carter, Ezra J. Carter, Dixie Deen) – 5:15
  2. "Mom and Dad's Waltz" (Lefty Frizzell) – 2:37
  3. "Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day" – 5:01
  4. "The Shores of Jordan" – 3:18
  5. "My Life" – 3:30

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Iris DeMent. Trouser Press.
  2. Web site: IRIS DEMENT. Geoffrey. Himes. July 22, 1994. The Washington Post.
  3. December 1994 . 20 Best Albums of '94 . . en. 76 .