Iris DeMent's 'Workin' on a World' Folds Joy Into a Legacy of Righteous Anger
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On Iris DeMent’s 1996 album, The Way I Should, there’s a track titled “Wasteland of the Free,” where she sings about uniquely tragic American hypocrisies that have only gotten more inane and inescapable in the years since, and it’s one I tend to put on repeat. “We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win/ Some…