Iris DeMent: “Mahalia”

Sweet keys build up to a sonorous and salty country twang from Iowa’s Iris DeMent. What’s the country song about? Heartbreak, of course. But more to the point: Mahalia Jackson, the famed gospel and soul singer. The dividing line between country and soul hardly divides at all. Shout out to Iris DeMent’s shout out of Mahalia Jackson’s “How I Got Over.” 

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