My Life (Iris DeMent album)

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ReleasedApril 12, 1994[1]
RecordedCowboy Arms (Nashville, Tennessee)
Length42:29
My Life
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 12, 1994[1]
RecordedCowboy Arms (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry folk
Length42:29
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerJim Rooney
Iris DeMent chronology
Infamous Angel
(1992)
My Life
(1994)
The Way I Should
(1996)

My Life is the second album released by singer-songwriter Iris DeMent.[2][3] Released on April 12, 1994 on Warner Bros., it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

The album was dedicated to her father, Patric Shaw DeMent, who died in 1992.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[4]
Austin American-StatesmanStarStarStarStar[5]
Chicago TribuneStarStarStarStar[6]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA+[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStar[8]
Entertainment WeeklyA[9]
Los Angeles TimesStarStarStarHalf star[10]
The New Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStar[11]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarStar[12]
Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10[13]

Spin ranked My Life as the 3rd best album of 1994. Writing in Spin, Eric Weisbard described the album as "...unbreakable gentleness as a modern epiphany about rural values."[14]

Robert Christgau gave the album an A+, which he's done for less than 150 albums out approximately 50,000 graded reviews.[15]

The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.

Track listing

Personnel

References

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