Iris DeMent - 15 January 1999: Ybor City, Florida

Artwork

Disc 1

  1. "Hello everybody"
  2. Sweet Is The Melody
  3. You've Done Nothing Wrong
  4. "New Year's resolution"
  5. Let The Mystery Be
  6. I'll Take My Sorrow Straight (DeMent/McCall)
  7. "I may move tonight after all"
  8. Walkin' Home
  9. The Shores Of Jordan (aborted)
  10. Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room (McGee)
  11. Sweet Forgiveness
  12. "A song I wrote for my Mom"
  13. Mama's Opry
  14. "Songs about death"
  15. The Shores Of Jordan
  16. Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day

Disc 2

  1. "This is called Letter To Mom"
  2. Letter To Mom
  3. When My Mornin' Comes Around
  4. "Merle Haggard"
  5. This Kind Of Happy (DeMent/Haggard)
  6. The Way I Should
  7. No Time To cry
  8. Calling For You
  9. "All my sermons"
  10. Wasteland Of The Free
  11. "The third song that I ever wrote"
  12. Our Town
  1. "Thank you"
  2. Infamous Angel
  3. My Life

Recorded live at Centro Asturiano Theater in Ybor City, Florida on January 15, 1999.

This show was a benefit concert arranged by local station WMNF. Iris' Wasteland Of The Free had been used, together with songs by Robert Earl Keen and Dan Bern, as justification for a 17% cut in the station's budget a couple of years previously, so her participation was more than fitting.

It's a beautifully clear recording, which I suspect could well be sourced from a pre-FM tape; there's one slight click during the introduction, but after that it's flawless.