The Trackless Woods

AlbumAug 07 / 201518 songs, 57m 42s82%
Country Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
7.5 / 10

The Trackless Woods, Iris DeMent's sixth LP, encompasses 18 poems by the late Anna Akhmatova that DeMent set to music.

Iowan folksinger Iris DeMent returns with her ambitious sixth album, The Trackless Woods.

8 / 10

The songs on Iris DeMent's The Trackless Woods have been twice translated: once from Anna Akhmatova's native Russian to English, and then ag...

8 / 10

One of the US’s most distinctive singers takes her daughter’s Russian heritage as inspiration for this powerful album

Russian poetry Southern country style. CD new music review by Mark Kidel

8 / 10