I don't know how they do it- but with out a drummer, label, publisher
etc… The Spring Standards managed to land a gig on NBC's Late Night
with Conan O'Brien and are taking the music world by storm!!

I first saw them on their Conan O'Brien performance a while back and
they blew me away. The trio plays a really cool mix of
rock/country/alternative that is just filled with massive amounts of
smooth rhythms, sweet melodies and lots of lush three part harmonies.

WAIT! There's more!

On top of all of that... aside from playing their main instrument and
singing, each of them is playing a different piece of a drum set!!
It's really a sight to see, totally awesome and I really couldn't
believe they pulled it off, haha!

Their self-released EP, No One Will Know is available online now at
TheSpringStandards.com

Check `em Out!

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I posted some videos from Orlando that I took in 2005.  This was the
last time Iron and Wine played Orlando.  Hope they come back soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_grPIpFvDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHCp8LDqoI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rx4CbWTd3o

Hope that you like them.  Let me know if you would like more.

Love the new CD!

yeah.  it was a good show.

i thought Sam seems a bit pissed about the sound issue.

i heard that the soundboard crapped out at about 6.30pm, so the venue had to go
out and buy a new one and wing it.

highlites for me were innocent bones & upward over the mountain.

and boy was it hot as hell!

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Exellent show, mostly new album, band had to deal with antique sound
system, but got it squared away after a few songs, wish they had
released album a few weeks earlier, had a great time.

from their blog



IRON & WINE ADDS 3 NEW SHOWS (2 in Canada!)




SEP 23:  Chicago, IL @ Metro

SEP 25:  Toronto, ON - Canada @ Danforth Music Hall

SEP 26:  Montreal, QC - Canada @ Metropolis



Presale tickets will be available for these three new
shows beginning Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 @ 12:00 PM
LOCAL TIME through a special presale held by Ducat
King.  As a fan, you'll be able to get your tickets
before the general public AND save a bit of money on
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7

Iron & Wine Stretches Out On 'Shepherd's Dog'
Sam Beam
June 07, 2007, 5:40 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Iron & Wine offers up its most eclectic and adventurous music to date on "The
Shepherd's Dog," due Sept. 25 via Sub Pop. First single "Boy With a Coin," which
is marked by hand claps and Sam Beam's multi-tracked vocals, will precede the
album on July 10, backed by the non-album cuts "Carried Home" and "Kingdom of
the Animals."

Beam told Billboard.com earlier this year he was aiming to make a "more playful"
record this time around, and that spirit is felt on tracks like the jaunty,
piano-infused opener "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car," the summer-friendly
"Lovesong of the Buzzard" and the drumless West African highlife of "House by
the Sea."

The artist's lyrics also take a turn for the surreal on the sitar-inflected
"White Tooth Man," which references postmen crying while opening the mail,
people being trampled in a Christmas parade and others who get sick after eating
a meal in a strip club.

Members of Calexico guest on "Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)," which would
have been right at home on the two groups' collaborative EP, "In the Reins."
Elsewhere, "The Devil Never Sleeps" incorporates saloon piano and a down-home
country feel, while Beam's electric guitar is the primary component of
"Carousel."

With the exception of "Carousel," every song had its basis in a backlog of
material that Beam has been gradually chipping away at for years. "It's still
pretty sizable," he said. "I'm already working on the next one. A lot of them,
you think you're on the right track, but when it comes time to record, they
don't seem different enough."

Iron & Wine's lone show at present is a July 14 set at the Pitchfork Music
Festival in Chicago.

Here is the track list for "The Shepherd's Dog":

"Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car"
"White Tooth Man"
"Lovesong of the Buzzard"
"Carousel"
"House by the Sea"
"Innocent Bones"
"Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)"
"Resurrection Fern"
"Boy With a Coin"
"The Devil Never Sleeps"
"Peace Beneath the City"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"

from:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42138-iron-and-wine-set-single-for-ju\
ly

Iron and Wine Set Single for July

Faces will melt as Sam Beam delivers the latest Iron
and Wine single-- the first off forthcoming LP The
Shepherd's Dog-- on July 10 via Sub Pop. "Boy With a
Coin" includes a single edit of that Dog cut, along
with two exclusive jams from the Shepherd sessions.

Mere days later, Beam will appear alongside his trap
rap idols Clipse at the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival.
Iron and Wine play the fest's second day (of three),
starting mosh pits across Chicago's Union Park on July
14. Tickets are so damn cheap they might as well be
free, and you can nab some here.

Look for the complete Shepherd's Dog opus to surface
sometime in September.

Summer jamz:

01 Carried Home
02 Boy With a Coin (Single Edit)
03 Kingdom of the Animals
04 Boy Wit' a Cool Mil (Polow da Don Club Shizzle
Remix) *

* JK LOL
Link-arrowMP3: Iron and Wine: Naked as We Came [from
the Our Endless Numbered Days LP]
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from:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/spip.php?article3068

Foiled Sam Beam Sues Store Employees for Delaying
Release of New LP on Sub Pop

A man who was beaten by employees of a store he was
trying to rob is now suing.

Police say Sam Beam (also known as Iron & Wine)
entered the department store FoxSX-FareYoos in
Pittsburgh, PA last July, brandished a semi-automatic
pistol, and demanded cash.

That’s when employees John Watts and Terry Biels
beat him with a pipe and held Beam at bay with his own
gun.

Beam escaped when they retreated into the store to
call 911, but he was arrested a week later. He pleaded
guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18
years in prison as a repeat violent felon.

Now Beam is suing the department store and the two
employees who beat him, claiming they committed
assault and battery and intentionally inflicted
emotional distress so as to delay the release of his
new album, The Shepherd’s Dog to be released on Sub
Pop.

1. Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
2. White Tooth Man
3. Lovesong of the Buzzard
4. Carousel
5. House by the Sea
6. Innocent Bones
7. Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)
8. Resurrection Fern
9. Boy With a Coin
10. The Devil Never Sleeps
11. Peace Beneath the City
12. Flightless Bird, American Mouth

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0

Iron & Wine In A Playful Mood On New Album
Sam Beam
March 07, 2007, 2:45 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

After recording an EP and touring with Calexico, as
well as taking time off to rear his infant daughter,
Iron & Wine principal Sam Beam has wrapped his next
studio album, "The Shepherd's Dog." The 12-track set
is due in late September via Sub Pop and will be
supported with a two-month fall tour of North America
and Europe.

"That tour affected me a lot," Beam tells
Billboard.com of his time spent with Calexico.
"They're such good musicians. I already knew I wanted
to do a much freer record; a little bit more of a
playful record. Their influence just helped me even
more."

Beam says the new album has a "wider sonic palette"
than anything he's previously released. Among the
guests are Calexico's Joey Burns and Paul Niehaus, Tin
Hat Trio accordionist Rob Burger and Califone's Brian
Deck. "There's some waltzes, reggae-influenced stuff
and some straight-up West African highlife music," he
says, the latter style of which crops up on "House by
the Sea."

A single, likely led by album track "Boy With a Coin,"
is being eyed for a summer release backed by two of
the four songs from the "Shepherd's Dog" sessions that
did not make the final cut. "It's got an
African-sounding guitar thing. It's kind of familiar,
but at the same time pretty indicative of the
playfulness of this new record," Beam says of "Boy
With a Coin."

With the exception of "Carousel," every song had its
basis in a backlog of material that Beam has been
gradually chipping away at for years. "It's still
pretty sizable," he admits. "I'm already working on
the next one. A lot of them, you think you're on the
right track, but when it comes time to record, they
don't seem different enough."

"The Shepherd's Dog" is the follow-up to 2004's "Our
Endless Numbered Days," which has sold nearly 200,000
copies in the United States, according to Nielsen
SoundScan. Beam attributes the three-year gap in new
albums to working in his new home studio. "This is the
first time I was ever actually able to do some stuff
and then sit on it for awhile and react to what we'd
done," he says. "I ended up taking a lot longer,
basically just because I had the time."

Here is the track list for "The Shepherd's Dog":

"Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car"
"White Tooth Man"
"Lovesong of the Buzzard"
"Carousel"
"House by the Sea"
"Innocent Bones"
"Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)"
"Resurrection Fern"
"Boy with a Coin"
"The Devil Never Sleeps"
"Peace Beneath the City"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"




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_Dog_Track

Iron and Wine Reveals Shepherd's Dog Tracklist

Sam Beam, aka Iron and Wine, will release his latest
LP and follow-up to 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days
in late September, according to Billboard.com. This
means you can stop trying to write your sweetheart
some sappy songs for Sweetest Day. Just get him/her
the damn Iron and Wine CD, dude! Trust us, he/she'll
love it.

The Shepherd's Dog will bear the time-tested Sub Pop
stamp and include such previously reported songs as
"Boy With a Coin", "House by the Sea", "Peace Beneath
the City", "Carousel", and "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed
Car", along with seven others, all included on the
tracklist we've lovingly reprinted below. "Boy With a
Coin" should proceed the album as a single, backed
with a few exclusive cuts from the Shepherd's Dog
sessions.

Beam doesn't have any shows planned right now, but
something tells us he'll be hitting the road soon.

The Shepherd's Dog:

01 Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
02 White Tooth Man
03 Lovesong of the Buzzard
04 Carousel
05 House by the Sea
06 Innocent Bones
07 Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)
08 Resurrection Fern
09 Boy With a Coin
10 The Devil Never Sleeps
11 Peace Beneath the City
12 Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Link-arrowMP3: Iron and Wine: Naked as We Came [from
the Our Endless Numbered Days LP]
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Iron & Wine Announces New Album
Fred Mills
February 13, 2007

Finally, some new Iron & Wine for the musical diet:
Sub Pop tells HARP that Sam Beam—aka Iron & Wine—is
readying an album of all-new material, tentatively set
for a fall release.

It will be the first proper Iron & Wine release since
2004’s critically-lauded Sub Pop release Our Endless
Numbered Days.

Titled The Shepherd’s Dog, the record includes songs
"Boy With a Coin", "House by the Sea", "The Love Song
of the Buzzard", "Peace Beneath the City", "Carousel"
and "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car,” several of which
Beam has been featuring lately in concert. Most
recently, he’s been spotted in Japan as Calexico’s
opening act—and sharp-eyed HARP readers may have also
spotted him appearing in Calexico’s Austin City Limits
episode which aired last year. The two groups
additionally collaborated on 2005’s In the Reins,
issued by the Overcoat label.

Watch this space for details on upcoming Iron & Wine
tour dates.

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n_Fans_T#41112

Iron and Wine Sics Shepherd's Dog on Fans This Fall

While we're still massaging our cochleas after the
ear-bludgeoning sonic assault that was 2004's Our
Endless Numbered Days, that boy Sam Beam just doesn't
relent. This fall, as Sub Pop has confirmed, Iron and
Wine will treat fans to another blistering LP of
mixtape-ready folk balladry titled The Shepherd's Dog.

The new disc will include songs "Boy With a Coin",
"House by the Sea", "The Love Song of the Buzzard",
"Peace Beneath the City", "Carousel", and "Pagan Angel
and a Borrowed Car". Beam, who just wrapped up a tour
of Japan with Calexico, has already begun beaming
audiences with these tunes in the live setting-- many
thanks to an astute show-going reader for the tip.
Link-arrowMP3: Iron and Wine: Naked as We Came [from
the Our Endless Numbered Days LP]

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from:
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Concert Review: Iron And Wine Debuts Conspiratorial
Songs

Neo-Folk Performer Battles Rustiness Before Friendly
Crowd
David Hyland, Staff Writer

UPDATED: 12:54 pm CST February 9, 2007

MILWAUKEE -- Call it a manipulation or sometimes just
offering a sage's advice, but Floridian Sam Beam is an
expert confessor. Whether it's admitting to flubbing
lyrics onstage or whispering secret wisdom through his
spooky, delicate songs, Beam (also known as one-man
acoustic entity Iron and Wine) lays it all out so as
to extend an invitation to a kind of conspiracy.

On Thursday night, Beam made his musical plot much
deeper, debuting three-fourths of his recently
recorded but unreleased new album before a friendly,
packed crowd at Milwaukee's majestic Pabst Theater. He
battled rustiness and occasionally struggled with the
new cuts, but the audience was fervent in their
support and he never surrendered his power to draw
listeners into his world.

At its best, Beam's songs tug at the same deep-seated
emotions as those suggested in that slightly cheesy
Volkswagen car commercial from years ago that featured
Nick Drake's "Pink Moon." (You know, the one were the
teens are riding around at night to a party but
ultimately skip the festivities to communally cruise
around with Drake cooing in their ears.)

Like the pretty 20-somethings in the commercial, Beam
wrestles with the themes that consume most young
songwriters -- desire for belonging, forlorn love and
contemplating the future -- but through his allusive
voice, his lyrics and atmospheric guitar work, he's
able to make his introspective folk songs curiously
unique and refreshing. His tunes are like ponderous
notes passed between friends, albeit the most
unashamedly poetic, naturalistic and fatalistic.

That same seriousness doesn't carry over onstage. On
Thursday, Beam's demeanor was a bit goofy, his dry,
self-deprecating chatter formed a commentary
throughout the hour-and-a-half show as he'd tune his
guitar. Dressed in a red sweater, well-worn jeans, a
scarf and sporting new, chin-length hair to match his
Jesus beard, he looked like the personification of a
hippie troubadour, but one beloved by the sensitive,
heavily pierced indie-rock fans. If Beam's intention
for this one-off show was to test the songs in
America's heartland, he made a wise choice.

A slightly riskier idea was to play this show solo.
First, Beam was clearly underrehearsed, particularly
with the new songs, and he frequently broke down as he
juggled playing and singing. Second, he played without
the assistance of the backing band that he usually
carts along with him. This left no one to compensate
for any slipups. He didn't seem bothered though. His
recurring mistakes were laughed off and then greeted
with sympathetic cheers.

"I'm not used to playing without a band," he said. "Oh
well."

Notwithstanding that, Beam could buckle down and give
magnetic performances. Fewer instruments didn't
clutter his guitar playing, which was impressive, and
gave his voice more room to maneuver. His singing was
richer, warmer and more forceful than on his handful
of albums and EPs. Sometimes bathed in a honey-colored
lights, he looked like a younger brother of the ZZ Top
guys.

Sprinkled through the set were many of the fan
favorites from those records but some in a rearranged
formed. "He Lays In Reins" and "Jezebel" (played at
someone's request) were slowed down to a quiet stomp
and both had curious codas with Beam demonstrating a
solid yet freaky falsetto. The chilly "Sodom, South
Georgia" was made brighter so as to sound like a Foo
Fighters song. The new variations gave Beam an
opportunity to bring out new colors of the melody and
imbue them with new emotions.

However, the crowd response was stronger for "Naked As
We Come," "Free Until They Cut Me Down" and "Upward
Over The Mountain," which were closer to the recorded
versions, and each met with enthusiastic applause, as
if the audience was savoring something familiar.

This was because the concert was really dedicated to
the new material, some of which might appear on the
album that Beam said would be called "Shepherd's
Dawg."

"Spelled D-A-W-G," he said.

In total, Beam performed about 10 new songs including
one that barely stretched two verses. Some of the song
titles Beam rattled off were "Pagan Angel And Borrowed
Car," "Love Song Of The Buzzard," "House By The Sea,"
"Carousel," "Resurrection Fern" and "Flightless Bird
And American Mouth." (Or was that mouse?)

The new tunes are a direct continuation of the Iron
and Wine sound. As is his practice, Beam has
constructed the new songs mostly around unusual
acoustic guitar riffs as opposed to chords. He repeats
the fragments until they become monotonous, allowing
the plucked notes to reverberate and allowing slight
changes to the tempo or tone to add variety and skew
meanings.

"Pagan Angel And Borrowed Car" boasted impressive
finger-picking technique and a blur of lyrical images
that veered between modern life and more pastoral
concerns. "Love Song Of The Buzzard" was a springtime
love song that featured bended notes, suggesting an
Indian music influence. "Carousel" featured an
ascending guitar pattern, which formed a tapestry of
notes. "Resurrection Fern" was melancholic but
defiant. Its melody developed around a C chord and
lyrics harkened back to early Van Morrison.

Beam's opening act, the 1900s, shared a similar
fondness for that kind of music. Despite the
Chicago-area combo's name, the group obviously has the
late '60s and early '70s in particular on their minds.
The seven-piece's music harkens back to some of the
sounds emerging from that era's Topanga Canyon in
California, varying between super-sunny jangle-pop of
the Mamas and the Papas to Ricky Nelson's country-rock
period. Their set was short and impressive, and their
merch table was doing brisk business after the show.

Beam certainly seemed ill-prepared as compared to the
1900s' tight set, but he was always able to compose
himself and swiftly reclaim the seriousness in his
songs.

"It's all pro here," he joked.

He finished strongly. His set-closing song, "The
Trapeze Singer," is a moving mini-epic that is a
tender letter with a Dante-like trip to heaven, and
should have a slot reserved on Iron and Wine's
greatest hits disc.

Fighting to keep pace, he wrung every word of its
inherent meaning, which tries to coax an erstwhile
friend to remember all their shared memories, a love
of mischief and fun. The song sums up the underlying
meaning of all Iron and Wine's albums and his core
message to those seduced by them: Come on in and enjoy.

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_Japan

Iron & Wine and Calexico Tour Japan

Iron & Wine and Calexico will jump back in the saddle
to perform In the Reins on their tour of Japan, which
begins tonight in Fukuoka. Sam and Sarah Beam of Iron
& Wine will open the shows as a duo before Calexico
gradually joins them. On the Calexico website,
frontman Joey Burns writes, "As on tours before in
North America and Europe, I am sure there will be a
lot of improvising together and coming up with
interesting new original and cover songs."

Though the Beams are more tight-lipped about their
future plans, Burns hints at them: "Last year, Paul
Niehaus and myself recorded with Sam at his home
studio to contribute to the new Iron & Wine album, due
to come out later this year."

Iron & Wine and Calexico have separate dates as well,
including a sizable tour of Australia for the latter
in late February/early March.

Dates:

01-19 Fukuoka, Japan - Soul Bird
01-20 Okayama, Japan - John Bull Hall
01-22 Tokyo, Japan - Liquid Room
01-23 Kanazawa, Japan - Art Village
01-24 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro
01-25 Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro
01-26 Tokyo, Japan - TBA
01-27 Tokyo, Japan - Club Quattro

Iron & Wine dates:

02-08 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
02-10 Grantham, PA - Brubaker Auditorium (Messiah
College)

Calexico dates:

02-08 New York, NY - The Allen Room @ Lincoln Center
02-24 Brisbane, Australia - Tivoli Theatre
02-25 Sydney, Australia - Basement
02-26 Sydney, Australia - Basement
02-28 Adelaide, Australia - The Gov
03-01 Fremantle, Australia - Fremantle Arts Centre
03-03 Melbourne, Australia - Corner
03-04 Melbourne, Australia - Corner
Link-arrowStream: Iron & Wine/Calexico: History of
Lovers [from the In the Reins EP]

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ote_Border_Issue_Awareness

Calexico Tour to Promote Border Issue Awareness


Calexico may have been nominated for the PLUG Awards' Americana Album
of the Year category, but it isn't just stars and stripes they're
interested in tackling in 2006.

The Tucson clan will launch a short December tour this weekend
(December 2), and in addition to taking Annuals, the Broken West, and
Los Lobos along for the ride, Calexico are bringing some special
guests: reps from Humane Borders and Music for America, two
organizations dedicated to raising awareness about humanitarian
issues resulting from immigration and border control (specifically
Mexican) regulations.


In addition to their North American plans, Calexico have a Japanese
tour lined up for January with-- what? Can this be true? Iron &
Wine?! What a surprise! Then it's back to the States for a pair of
shows at Lincoln Center in New York City, as part of the American
Songbook series.

12-02 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre *
12-03 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad *
12-04 Flagstaff, AZ - Orpheum *
12-05 Tempe, AZ - Clubhouse *
12-07 Santa Barbara, CA - Soho Restaurant #
12-08 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore ^
12-09 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore ^
01-19 Fukuoka, Japan - Soul Bird %
01-20 Okayama, Japan - John Bull Hall %
01-23 Kanagawa, Japan - Art Village %
01-24 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro %
01-25 Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro %
01-27 Tokyo, Japan - Club Quattro %
02-08 New York, NY - Allen Room at Lincoln Center (American Songbook
series) (two shows)


* with Annuals
# with the Broken West
^ with Los Lobos
% with Iron & Wine

I have a copy of the ACL show on my site here:
http://www.passingafternoon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1006


--- "Henry L. Lefkowitz" <hlef@...>
wrote:

> Thanks for this!  Did folks catch "Austin City
> Limits" with Sufjan Stevens and Calexico (and
> supposedly, Sam)?  I recorded it to my DVR, but I
> haven't had the chance to watch it yet.
>
> With peace,
>
> Henry (a new list member, though it's been real
> quiet since I joined a few weeks ago)
>
>




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Thanks for this!  Did folks catch "Austin City Limits" with Sufjan Stevens and
Calexico (and supposedly, Sam)?  I recorded it to my DVR, but I haven't had the
chance to watch it yet.

With peace,

Henry (a new list member, though it's been real quiet since I joined a few weeks
ago)

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   Sam Beam: Love, God, death and a tree of bees

   The famously uncommunicative singer-songwriter Sam Beam - also known as
Iron & Wine - discusses his hauntingly poetic musical world with Andy
Gill

   Published: 17 November 2006

   Sam Beam, the singer-songwriter who records under the nom-de-disque of
Iron & Wine, is as far removed from your average rock star as it's
possible to be and still sell records. Like Will (Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
Oldham, he sports a beard big enough to nest a family of puffins, behind
which he lurks quietly, evading the less welcome attentions resulting
from his recent celebrity. Where some in his profession jump eagerly
into the party circuit, desperate to curry favour and coverage in the
showbiz gossip columns, Beam lives quietly at home with his wife and
children, away from the bright lights.

   He's recently moved further away from the showbiz scene, having
abandoned his life in Miami for Austin, Texas. It's almost as if he's
shrinking further from the limelight, like a disturbed hermit crab
scuttling his shell to another cranny of the rock pool.

   You could surmise all the above from the most cursory exposure to Iron
& Wine's output, in which his low-key murmur, accompanied by his
acoustic guitar (or occasionally by band arrangements), sketches,
narratives and tableaux in which intertwine those perennial interests of
country music, love and God and death. You'll most likely have heard
Iron & Wine without intending to, as his cover of The Postal Service's
"Such Great Heights", recently released as a single, has been in heavy
rotation on an advert, forming with José Gonzalez's "Heartbeats" a sort
of one-two punch combination of quiet nu-folk persuasion.

   The problem with being a reserved rising star, however, is that people
want to ask you questions, for which you don't really have that many
interesting answers. Beam may be the least forthcoming interviewee I've
ever encountered, and not through any attempt to appear aloof. He gives
the impression of simply not understanding the mechanics of the
interview, responding to questions not as opportunities to expound at
length on varied matters, but as queries requiring the most abbreviated
answers he can offer.

   If he could get away with simple "yes" and "no" responses, he probably
would, but he'd do it with such pleasant, helpful humour that you
couldn't take offence.

   Beam took his first steps into the music biz back in 2000, when
Seattle's Sub Pop label offered to release some songs he'd sent them.
  From there, his profile has expanded with each subsequent release, up to
last year's collaborative EP with Calexico, In the Reins.

   Until his recording career took off, Beam spent his days lecturing
college students about cinematography in Miami, and making his own
forays into film-making. Presumably, I suggest, the study of
cinematography must have been helpful in songwriting, in terms of things
like setting a scene and illuminating the narrative?

   "Yeah, I guess so," offers Beam, "although I didn't really think about
it until people started asking me about it! But I'm sure it does. The
good thing about songs is you can leave them open-ended, whereas in film
you have to communicate something pretty quickly. With a song, you can
make it a bit more obtuse and interesting."

   And with lines such as "woke like a treeful of bees", "there will be
teeth in the grass", "God, there are guns growing out of our bones" and
my favourite, "slept like a bucket of snow", Beam's songs don't lack
their more interesting aspects. At times, it's like he's tapping into
the same dark, mythopoeic imagery that informed the great country
bluesmen, refracting love, death, faith and bleak destiny through a
fevered dreamscape haunted by angels and demons; but confronting them
not with the wracked, careworn voice of a Robert Johnson or Charley
Patton, but rather the soft, emollient tone of a Nick Drake, someone,
along with Elliott Smith, with whom Beam is often compared. Doesn't he
find that a little worrying?

   "Oh, I don't know," he muses, not catching my drift. "Part of you hopes
they can hear the other parts of it that are, you hope, unique, but at
the same time it's pretty flattering too, 'cos I have the utmost respect
for those two artists. It's a two-way street." But, I remind him, they
both committed suicide. "Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. Hope I can
hold on!" he laughs, quickly glossing over the point. "But really,
there's so much music around these days, I'm just happy if people are
talking about it, period."

   For the moment, people are talking about Iron & Wine primarily as a
result of the expanded profile afforded by TV and movies, which seem to
have latched on to his music. His version of "Such Great Heights" has
found peculiar favour in the advertising industry: as well as its use in
UK campaigns, the song featured in American TV ads, and in the film The
Garden State. Beam admits it's strange to hear his voice in these
contexts.

   "It's a little weird, for sure," he says. "They used that same song
over here in a commercial for M&Ms, the candy, and I did see that one on
the TV, and it was a bit bizarre. They played it in a movie theatre one
time when my wife had taken the kids to see a film, and they flipped
out, they thought it was hilarious!"

   Ironically for someone who spent years behind the scenes on the visual
side of TV and film productions Beam now finds himself in greater demand
for his music, with increasing requests to work on film soundtracks.

   While such commissions help pay the rent, Beam's energies remain
focused primarily on his records. Each project's individual songs seem
tethered to a theme: his last full-length album release, 2004's Our
Endless Numbered Days was filled with images of fire, ashes, dust, birth
and death, while last year's Woman King EP featured half a dozen songs
concerned with the biblical attitude to female archetypes. Unlike most
songwriters, however, Beam doesn't write to fit a thematic brief, but
stockpiles material, only discovering the theme later, while assembling
the songs for an album.

   His next album, Beam promises, will unveil a hitherto dormant political
dimension to Iron & Wine. "I don't know how to describe it - it's born
out of confusion," he admits. "It's not a political propaganda record,
but it's definitely inspired by political confusion, because I was
really taken aback when Bush got reelected." Here's hoping the decline
in the president's fortunes doesn't draw Iron & Wine's sting.

   'Woman King' and 'In the Reins' and the single 'Such Great Heights' are
out on Sub Pop Records

Yes, the Lollapalooza show is on my site,
www.passingafternoon.com. Someone there is also going
to record this event.



--- Vantomas <vantomas25@...> wrote:

> Thank you very much Aarvid !
>   Do everybody know about recording the show ?
>   And did everybody record the last AT&T video
> broadcast when playing Iron & Wine ?
>
> aarvid238 <aarvid238@...> escribió:
>           LIVE BROADCAST of Performances at Austin
> City Limits!
>
> Didn't get tickets to Austin City Limits? You can
> STILL watch Iron
> & Wine perform LIVE as it's happening from Zilker
> Park in Austin,
> TX.
>
> Don't miss out! Click here*
> <http://blueroom.att.com/> to go to the
> AT&T blue room and enjoy
> hours of free, uninterrupted, live streaming
> coverage from Austin
> City Limits Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September
> 15th-17th.
>
> The webcast will feature live performances from Iron
> & Wine and
> more! So check it out!
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo.
> Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por
> minuto.
> http://es.voice.yahoo.com
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo.
> Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por
> minuto.
> http://es.voice.yahoo.com
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>


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Thank you very much Aarvid !
   Do everybody know about recording the show ?
   And did everybody record the last AT&T video broadcast when playing Iron &
Wine ?

aarvid238 <aarvid238@...> escribió:
           LIVE BROADCAST of Performances at Austin City Limits!

Didn't get tickets to Austin City Limits? You can STILL watch Iron
& Wine perform LIVE as it's happening from Zilker Park in Austin,
TX.

Don't miss out! Click here* <http://blueroom.att.com/> to go to the
AT&T blue room and enjoy
hours of free, uninterrupted, live streaming coverage from Austin
City Limits Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 15th-17th.

The webcast will feature live performances from Iron & Wine and
more! So check it out!

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]






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LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo.
Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto.
http://es.voice.yahoo.com

---------------------------------

LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo.
Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto.
http://es.voice.yahoo.com

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

LIVE BROADCAST of Performances at Austin City Limits!

Didn't get tickets to Austin City Limits? You can STILL watch Iron
& Wine perform LIVE as it's happening from Zilker Park in Austin,
TX.

Don't miss out!  Click here* <http://blueroom.att.com/>   to go to the
AT&T blue room and enjoy
hours of free, uninterrupted, live streaming coverage from Austin
City Limits Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 15th-17th.

The webcast will feature live performances from Iron & Wine and
more! So check it out!


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I just bought a single from another great American group, The Shins,
partly because some guy named Sam Beam plays together on one of the B-
sides.  The CD single for "Fighting in a Sack" features a live track
of Beam harmonizing with The Shins on stage in L.A. for their fine
song, "New Slang," from their first album; the ensuing result is quite
nice.

-Michael

Don't forget to head over to the AT&T blueroom page at 1:30pm central
time to check out Sam and Iron & Wine playing a live set from Lolla.
The broadcast starts at 12:30 today with Living Things and will be
happening all of today and tomorrow as well, should be a great time!
http://blueroom.att.com/events/lollapalooza.php

from iron and wine

Iron and Wine Such Great Heights Euro Import CD Now
Available at www.subpop.com!
These sweet import CD singles arrived today and you
can get one for just $3.75 American (plus shipping)!
Happy Birthday, America!

Love,
Sub Pop

Track Listing:
1. Such Great Heights
2. Trapeze Swinger (live recording from Radio Vienna)
3. Naked As We Came (live recording from Radio Vienna)

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from:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/899672

Iron & Wine stretch to Such Great Heights
Artists: Iron & Wine, The Postal Service

Sam Beam - aka Iron & Wine - is to release his version
of 'Such Great Heights', originally penned and
performed by The Postal Service.

The song will be available as a download and CD on
July 31. Previously released as a b-side of The Postal
Service's version, Beam's take on the song is enjoying
increasing popularity. It was included in the movie
Garden State, and was recently used on an
advertisement for Ask.com in Britain, sparking a fresh
wave of interest.

The single's b-side will be 'Naked As We Came', lifted
from Iron & Wine's most recent (2004) album, Our
Endless Numbered Days.

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bunch of photos from zagreb's concert:
http://img135.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img53447hr.jpg

from:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article360505.ece

Calexico/Iron & Wine, Forum, London   threestar
By Emma Field
Published: 27 April 2006

Iron & Wine, aka Sam Beam, a former cinematography
teacher from Miami, and the Tuscon, Arizona Tex-Mex
outfit Calexico gather on an ivy-gilded stage,
crowding 12 people on to it at the height of their
collaborative effort. Although Calexico are headlining
the tour, promoting the new album Garden Ruin, this is
also a significant moment for Iron & Wine.

Beam's collaboration with Calexico is the realisation
of a five-year aspiration to re-record his debut LP,
The Creek Drank the Cradle, with Calexico. Beam ended
up releasing what he had produced on his home
computer. Iron & Wine's delicately intimate sound on
that album and the follow-up, Our Endless Numbered
Days (2004), is some of the most enchanting music
produced in the alt.country genre. Yet perhaps this,
like many brilliant moves, was an unintended turn.

The EP In the Reins, with Calexico reined in as Beam's
backing band, is a departure from the whispered
yearnings and lilting lullabies of Iron & Wine's
albums. The grand scale of the stage and theatre alone
serve to draw much more than his usual whisper from
Beam, in "Sodom, South Georgia" and "Cinder and
Smoke". Gradually, more members of Calexico join him
on stage and the sound gets larger, with Joey Burns
taking the lead vocals for "Prison on Route 41" to a
fanfare by trumpeters. By way of interlude, the guest
mariachi, Salvador Duran, plays solo. He stamps his
feet, clicks his tongue, and adds animal sounds into
his hypnotic guitar serenades.

Calexico then immerses the crowd in a grand ambience,
weaving through noir guitar riffs and jazz structures
with glimmering flat steel guitar, adorned with
trumpet flourishes and punctuated with elaborate
rhythms. They create an iconic road-movie soundscape,
which crosses borders and cultures, picking up
characters and instruments along the way. Yet Burns'
clear country melod-ies and the band's slick
professionalism veer dangerously close to MOR.

"Across the Wire" and "Sunken Waltz" are high points.
After Calexico's sparkling cover of Love's "Alone
Again Or" the gig comes full circle: Beam and his
sister return for "In the Reins" and Duran sings his
impassioned refrain. It's striking how seamless the
collaboration proves. Underlining both bands' alt.
status they play a laid-back, countrified rendition of
The Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties".

Iron & Wine, aka Sam Beam, a former cinematography
teacher from Miami, and the Tuscon, Arizona Tex-Mex
outfit Calexico gather on an ivy-gilded stage,
crowding 12 people on to it at the height of their
collaborative effort. Although Calexico are headlining
the tour, promoting the new album Garden Ruin, this is
also a significant moment for Iron & Wine.

Beam's collaboration with Calexico is the realisation
of a five-year aspiration to re-record his debut LP,
The Creek Drank the Cradle, with Calexico. Beam ended
up releasing what he had produced on his home
computer. Iron & Wine's delicately intimate sound on
that album and the follow-up, Our Endless Numbered
Days (2004), is some of the most enchanting music
produced in the alt.country genre. Yet perhaps this,
like many brilliant moves, was an unintended turn.

The EP In the Reins, with Calexico reined in as Beam's
backing band, is a departure from the whispered
yearnings and lilting lullabies of Iron & Wine's
albums. The grand scale of the stage and theatre alone
serve to draw much more than his usual whisper from
Beam, in "Sodom, South Georgia" and "Cinder and
Smoke". Gradually, more members of Calexico join him
on stage and the sound gets larger, with Joey Burns
taking the lead vocals for "Prison on Route 41" to a
fanfare by trumpeters. By way of interlude, the guest
mariachi, Salvador Duran, plays solo. He stamps his
feet, clicks his tongue, and adds animal sounds into
his hypnotic guitar serenades.

Calexico then immerses the crowd in a grand ambience,
weaving through noir guitar riffs and jazz structures
with glimmering flat steel guitar, adorned with
trumpet flourishes and punctuated with elaborate
rhythms. They create an iconic road-movie soundscape,
which crosses borders and cultures, picking up
characters and instruments along the way. Yet Burns'
clear country melod-ies and the band's slick
professionalism veer dangerously close to MOR.

"Across the Wire" and "Sunken Waltz" are high points.
After Calexico's sparkling cover of Love's "Alone
Again Or" the gig comes full circle: Beam and his
sister return for "In the Reins" and Duran sings his
impassioned refrain. It's striking how seamless the
collaboration proves. Underlining both bands' alt.
status they play a laid-back, countrified rendition of
The Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties".

Calexico

* with Iron and Wine

Sat Apr 08   Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
Sun Apr 09   Koln, Germany - Palladium
Tue Apr 11   San Francisco, CA - Ameoba
Wed Apr 12   Los Angeles, CA - Ameoba
Thu Apr 13   Seattle, WA - Easy Street (Queen Anne)

Sat Apr 15   Austin, TX - Emo's (Free Show)
Mon Apr 17   Chicago, IL - Tower Records (Clark
Tue Apr 18   New York, NY - Virgin Union Square
Fri Apr 21   Manchester, UK - Academy 1    *
Sat Apr 22   Bristol, UK - Academy *
Sun Apr 23   London, UK - The Forum *
Tue Apr 25   Frankfurt, Germany - Mousontrum *
Wed Apr 26   Utrecht, Netherland - Tivoli *
Thu Apr 27   Bourges, France - Printemps BourgesFest *
Fri Apr 28   Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royal *
Sat Apr 29   Copenhagen, Denmark - Amager Bio *
Sun Apr 30   Stockholm, Sweden - Berns *
Mon May 01   Oslo, Norway - Rockerfeller*
Tue May 02   Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgarn *
Thu May 04   Berlin, Germany - Colombiahall*
Fri May 05   Munchen, Germany - Tonhalle*
Sat May 06   Graz, Austria - Orpheum    *
Sun May 07   Wien, Austria - Arena *
Tue May 09   Zagreb, Croatia - Pauk *
Wed May 10   Treviso, Italy - New Age *
Thu May 11   Milan, Italy - Rolling Stone *
Fri May 12   Luzern, Switzerland  - BOA Bar *
Sat May 13   Zurich, Switzerland - Volkhaus *
Sun May 14   Haarlem, Netherland - Patronaat *
Mon May 15   Krefeld, Germany     - Kulturfabrik *
Tue May 16   Eindhoven, Netherla - Effenaar *
Sat Aug 05   Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza

April 11th, 2006

Calexico - Garden Ruin - CD/LP

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