![]() ![]() Because I don’t know the answer to it, you know. ![]() I did maybe five interviews in the last ten years or more. Well, I dealt with it by just not talking to anybody. I’m sure over the past decade you’ve been asked many, many times when you were going to write some new songs. Twenty years after her lauded debut, Infamous Angel, and sixteen after her last collection of originals, The Way I Should, she’s given us a new, devastatingly wholehearted country-blues album, Sing The Delta. If we seldom hear about that tension between external expectations and internal creative process, it’s probably because most songwriters aren’t nearly as open about such things as one Iris DeMent. So it only stands to reason that there’d be at least a few songwriters out there, even fantastically gifted ones, who don’t fit the mold in terms of productivity and who can’t keep up with the album-of-new-material-every-couple-of-years pace to which the music industry, critics and engaged music fans are accustomed. There are as many ways to approach writing songs as there are people. ![]()
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