The Trackless Woods

by Iris DeMent

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	08/07/2015
Label:	Flariella Records
UPC:	0634457691223
Rank:	88272

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. The Souls of all My Dears
17. The Last Toast
18. Not With a Lover¿¿¿s Lyre/Anna Akhmatova¿¿¿s Recitation of ¿¿¿The Muse¿¿¿

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Iris DeMent   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Anna Akhmatova   Composer
Greg Brown   Liner Notes
Iris DeMent   Liner Notes,Composer
Dasha Brown   Liner Notes