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Just finished touring two days ago. Thanks to all that came out.

With the holidays around the corner, don't forget to pickup my new album, The Shepard's Dog!

Much Love,

Sam
posted 6 months ago
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The Shepherd's Dog: Iron and Wine’s last release (not including the collaborative In the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005’s Woman King, a 6-song EP which distinguished itself from its predecessors with a deepening integration of spiraling, dense opuses with intimate confessionals. On The Shepherd’s Dog this integration is complete. Sam Beam has confessed to finding spiritual inspiration in Tom Waits’ pièce de résistance, Swordfishtrombones, an album with which Waits upended his previous strategies and forged a new musical language for himself. Recorded by Sam with the assistance of longtime producer Brian Deck and engineer Colin Studebaker, The Shepherd’s Dog succeeds in accomplishing a similar cathartic recasting of the artist’s intentions. The arrangements here are kaleidoscopic and rich. “White Tooth Man” rocks with a desperate, menacing intensity while “Boy with a Coin,” the album’s first single, is darkly playful with a handclap hook tumbling under its cascading melody. The whole album breathes. Its seductive rhythms percolate and undulate, from the Psych-Bhangra-redux of “Pagan ... (+) expand
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Boriss (level 6) wrote:
at 02 July 2009 1:36PM
Come on boy. That was my coin.
Eve (level 3) wrote:
at 30 June 2009 12:33PM
i will never grow tired of iron&wine.; its bliss
Aslanswake (level 7) wrote:
at 23 June 2009 10:37AM
a-flippin-mazing:)
hammyclaire (level 9) wrote:
at 19 June 2009 7:47PM
I love everything about this song!
larry19 (level 10) wrote:
at 18 June 2009 7:08PM
Boy with a coin is a fantastic song! You, sir, make beautiful music,
temetnosce (level 10) wrote:
at 17 June 2009 9:15PM
ahhhhhhh maaaannnn beautiful
Nathalie (level 8) wrote:
at 17 June 2009 12:59PM
Love it!
jared771 (level 13) wrote:
at 16 June 2009 12:13PM
This man's music reminds me a lot of Dallas Greene (City and Colour), and I mean that in the best possible way.
SterileGreen (level 9) wrote:
at 15 June 2009 6:43AM
come to Australia gosh darn fuck it.
panta (level 2) wrote:
at 09 June 2009 1:19PM
I want to see you guys at the Merriweather in MD this August before I start college. Your songs are incredibly well written and an inspiration. I've learned most of Shepherd's Dog on guitar and play it for my senior English class when there's no work to be done.



Thanks for being such a big part of my life! hope to see you in August.
trojkolka (level 9) wrote:
at 08 June 2009 5:59AM
Awesome band and song
REDtheredhead (level 11) wrote:
at 03 June 2009 9:57PM
I am counting the days till I get to see you perform live at the Newport Folk Festival!
xcocox14x (level 9) wrote:
at 01 June 2009 8:41AM
boy with a coin : )
Rosscoe13 (level 9) wrote:
at 30 May 2009 6PM
Can't wait to see you at Winnipeg Folk Fest. We're all very excited!!
Mooseriver (level 13) wrote:
at 30 May 2009 7:06AM
Brilliant!
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