| My Life | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | The Cowboy Arms Hotel & Recording Spa, Nashville | |||
| 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. [1] [2] Released in 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.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Austin American-Statesman | [4] |
| Chicago Tribune | [5] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | A+ [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A [8] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [9] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [10] |
| Rolling Stone | [11] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 [12] |
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." [13]
The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
All songs by Iris DeMent except as indicated.
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