My Life (Iris DeMent album)
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| My Life | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 12, 1994[1] | |||
| Recorded | Cowboy Arms (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Country folk | |||
| Length | 42:29 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Jim Rooney | |||
| Iris DeMent chronology | ||||
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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.
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.