While writing songs for her seventh album, Workin' on a World, Iris DeMent recalled a vivid memory from her childhood, when she was first struck by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.It was the late 1960s, not long before his assassination, and she was 5 or 6 years old.Her very large family she has 15 siblings had just moved from Paragould, Ark., out to California.
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