Sam Beam thought he had writer’s block as he entered the studio post-pandemic. But it turns out that wasn’t the case at all: the sessions produced so much music Beam had to split it into two different albums, 2024’s Fiona Apple-featuring Light Verse and his eighth album, Hen’s Teeth, released by Sub Pop in late February. “Deciding on which ones go on the record is just an intuitive thing,” Beam says. “There’s no right or wrong answers, you just try to find ones that flow into the next, keep you on your toes.”
Category: Iron & Wine
Decade :: Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Iron & Wine :: Around The Well
Saturday, April 18th, marked the second annual Record Store Day which by all accounts was a great success. Iron & Wine were among the various artists and labels who were offering up limited edition vinyl LPs, […]
Iron & Wine :: The Shepherd’s Dog
Upon their release, Iron & Wine’s debut, The Creek Drank The Cradle, and its subsequent EP, The Sea & The Rhythm, at first listen, felt like home. Sam Beam’s eclectic, seemingly, backwoods musical […]
Iron & Wine :: Boy With A Coin
Sub Pop has just recently made the title track off the new Iron & Wine single, Boy With A Coin , available for download. As a certified Iron & Wine freak, I have been talking this thing up to […]