Nevertheless, several months later, DeMent ventured gamely into the studio a second time, with ex-Steve Earle/Neil Diamond guitarist Richard Bennett producing. And then Covid hit, and we all know how that went.” And the next thing I knew, I had 10 or 12 songs. “I had some songs laying around, and some of them were covers that I’d done for years, that a lot of people liked. “The song took only a day or two, but the band was there, and they were all people that I’d worked with, toured with, and was friends with, so we just continued,” she recalls.
But the lure of the studio proved too tempting. Then she was heading home to her musician husband Greg Brown and disappearing from radar screens in their rustic Iowa retreat. With her producer pal Jim Rooney, she initially just planned to cut a one-off Nanci Griffith cover, “The Banks of Pontchartrain,” for a tribute album he was putting together for the now-late artist, nothing more. “When I started making this, it wasn’t even a record,” swears the two-time Grammy nominee at 62. She never realized she’d made so many classic protest songs over several sessions that began back in 2019 until she finally added them all up in early 2022. 24-that bristles with cathartic socio-political anger and yet comforts and rallies a listener’s flagging spirit, as well. But a funny thing happened while navigating lockdown-somehow, she wound up with an entire new album, Workin’ On a World, her seventh-out Feb. Folk-country singer/songwriter Iris Dement was sure she had put most of her projects on perpetual pause when the pandemic hit in March of 2020.
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