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In country history, the year 1992 is most immediately affiliated with Garth Brooks, whose album, \u003ci\u003eThe Chase\u003c\/i\u003e, topped both the country and pop album charts that year, and with Billy Ray Cyrus' 'Achy Breaky Heart,' which fuelled a line dance craze. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSqueezed into a playlist alongside such hits, DeMent's doleful, hushed 'Our Town' would've sounded as if it were being broadcast from another planet. 'People call me country,' she told journalist Ben Thompson while on tour in Britain a couple years later. 'But country doesn't call me country.' Let's call her country. The genre is always more expansive than what radio stations program. It happened \u003ci\u003eInfamous Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is close kin to a different sort of country music that was just then having a moment: specifically, country singer- songwriters, focusing on personal, but universal, loss and hope and favouring small acoustic combos. 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Featuring original music and melodies by Iris, 'The Trackless Woods' sets 18 poems by acclaimed 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova to life.  Hailed as one of Russia's finest poets, Akhmatova survived the Bolshevik Revolution, both World Wars and Stalin. She lost family, friends and fellow writers to political killings and labor in the gulags. When Iris randomly stumbled upon Akhmatova's work in a book of poetry a friend sent as a gift, she was immediately taken by the sorrow and burden of the poems, juxtaposed with Akhmatova's lightness and transcendence in the face of inhumanity. The result is a breathtaking pairing of piano and voice in Iris' sui generis style with timeless melodies that are deeply rooted in the American South. The project also fulfilled a long yearned-for desire to connect with her adopted daughter's culture and history. 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