Description
Iris DeMent sets the stage for her 7th album with the title track in which she moves from a sense of despair towards a place of promise – “Now I’m workin’ on a world I may never see / Joinin’ forces with the warriors of love / Who came before and will follow you and me.”
Stalled partway through by the pandemic, the record took six years to make with the help of three friends and co-producers – Richard Bennett, **Pieta Brown (the talented daughter of Iris’ husband singer/songwriter GREG BROWN) and Jim Rooney. It was Brown who gave the record its final push.
“Pieta asked me what had come of the recordings I’d done with Jim and Richard in 2019 and 2020. I told her I’d pretty much given up on trying to make a record. She asked would I mind if she had a listen. So, I had everything we’d done sent over to her, and not long after that I got a text, bouncing with exclamation marks: ‘You have a record and it’s called Workin’ On A World!’”
Iris DeMent
**We were so lucky to host an instore for PIETA and her husband BO RAMSEY several years ago…so so many great memories of performances on that wee stage!!
