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Iron and Wine / Passing Afternoon - SP664

“Passing Afternoon” from Our Endless Numbered Days.
“Communion Cups and Someone’s Coat” is a new one and was recorded in August of 2004. This track should keep you satisfied until the new Iron and Wine EP Woman King comes out February 22, 2005. “Dearest Forsaken” previously available only on the Iron and Wine Sub Pop Singles Club 7 inch; here recorded live at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic in Los Angeles.

Track Listing:

1. Passing Afternoon
2. Communion Cups and Someone’s Coat
3. Dearest Forsaken.

Released: October 19, 2004

Iron and Wine / Boy With a Coin - SP743

Boy With a Coin is the new single from the forthcoming new Iron and Wine album, The Shepherd’s Dog, due out Sept. 25! Also included here are two tracks that won’t be found on the album: “Carried Home” and “Kingdom of the Animals.”

Released: July 10, 2007

Iron and Wine / Around the Well Shirt - 2060094

A new shirt design from Iron & Wine’s Around the Well printed on American Apparel.

*XS is ladies large!

Released: July 15, 2009

Iron and Wine / Around the Well - SP808

Collecting songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released, Around the Well spans Iron and Wine’s earliest sessions which yielded the band’s debut (2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle) through material recorded for 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog. The double-disc Around the Well collection is broken up into two sections. The first half is an assortment of hushed home recordings, unedited and raw, and the second highlights moments captured in the confines of proper studios with the help of other musicians, friends and engineers. The album’s title comes from a line in the song “The Trapeze Swinger,” a fan favorite which was written for and included in the movie In Good Company. Three more songs written and recorded for the film finally make their appearance here as well: “Belated Promise Ring,” “God Made the Automobile” and “Homeward, These Shoes.” Around the Well also brings together hard-to-find covers such as The Flaming Lips’ “Waitin’ for a Superman” and New Order’s “Love Vigilantes,” along with one of Iron and Wine’s earliest originals, “Sacred Vision.” In support of Around the Well, this May Iron and Wine will perform ten intimate shows in five cities. In addition, Iron and Wine have begun work on the follow-up to The Shepherd’s Dog and plan to release a new album in spring, 2010.

Released: May 19, 2009

Iron and Wine / Animal Tree - 30600979

This is a signed and numbered Iron & Wine poster limited to 400. Designed and silk-screened by Dan Grzeca, this Iron & Wine poster will make any lackluster wall look quite lively and appear to be brimming with new life.

Released: November 19, 2008

Iron and Wine / The Shepherd's Dog - SP710

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 Angel and a Borrowed Car” to the album’s last dance—a waltz—"Flightless Bird, American Mouth.” Compositionally, it is Iron and Wine’s most ambitious and accomplished recording to date. It’s also the most satisfying.

The LP version of this album comes with a download code for the mp3s of these songs. Yay!

SP710

Release date: September 25, 2007

Pitchfork review of The Shepherd’s Dog

Allmusic review of The Shepherd’s Dog

New York Times review of The Shepherd’s Dog

Dusted review of The Shepherd’s Dog

Billboard review of The Shepherd’s Dog

The Shepherd’s Dog on Metacritic

Released: September 25, 2007

Iron and Wine / Woman King - SP665

Aside from the immediacy and intimacy of his recorded work, there is one thing (aside from the evidently ceaselessly noteworthy fact that he sports a beard…) clear about Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam: he is wonderfully prolific. In just short of 2 1/2 years he has released 2 albums (2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle and 2004’s Our Endless Numbered Days) and (with this and 2003’s The Sea and the Rhythm) two EPs. Recorded in August 2004 with Brian Deck at his Engine Studios, Iron & Wine’s latest release is striking both for its broadened palette (percussion, piano, violin, electric guitar) and its thematic focus on female characters both archetypal and personal. The latter is mostly coincidental, a larger batch of songs yielding recurrent imagery when pared down for this EP. The increasingly complex beauty of Iron & Wine’s albums might best be summed up by the following, from SPIN (in a review of Our Endless Numbered Days):“…Beam is a fearlessly accessible songwriter, framing his melancholy in concrete imagery and solid, inviting melodies. He writes with the self-confidence of a man at peace with his gauzy gifts. He sings like a father talking to a child he respects or like a husband to a wife he adores. Beam has given us his second straight masterwork: self-assured, spellbinding and richly, refreshingly adult.” Here’s the third.

SP665
Release date: February 22, 2005

Released: February 22, 2005

Iron and Wine / Our Endless Numbered Days - SP630

Miami’s Sam Beam makes music under the name Iron and Wine and September, 2002 saw the release of his debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle. That record was/is hushed, literate, intimate, melodic: a quiet treasure which, with its unaffected candor and depth, found fans all over. (Entertainment Weekly: “Based in Miami, of all places, [Beam] invests these songs with hypnotic beauty and sparkling melody, making them as accessible as they are affecting.”) Our Endless Numbered Days is the second full-length album from Iron and Wine and it was recorded both at Sam’s Miami home and in Chicago’s Engine Studios with Brian Deck (Red Red Meat, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova, etc.) On it, Sam is aided and abetted by regular touring and recording conspirators: his sister Sarah Beam, Patrick McKinney, Jeff McGriff, EJ Holowicki, and Jonathon Bradley. Listening to Our Endless Numbered Days makes plain Sam’s deft touch with words and melody; one that allows him to turn out stories about love, loss, faith, or the lack of it that are at once personal and universal, set to music that is sweetly haunting and timeless.

SP630
p>. release date: March 23, 2004

The original pressing, which is out of print and unavailable, of this CD came with a bonus disc, which included the following tracks:
1. Cinder and Smoke (demo)
2. Swans and the Swimming
3. Free Until They Cut Me Down (demo)
4. Hickory

Released: March 23, 2004

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine Limited Edition Poster Set - S-IRONWINEPOSTERSET-

This is a set of 3 prints of Sam Beam’s original artwork that was used to create the covers for The Shepherd’s Dog and the Boy with a Coin single. Each set comes in a heavy duty, silk screened kraft envelope and one of the prints has been signed by Sam Beam himself. Limited edition of 400. These prints will be sent via UPS Ground, so we are unable to ship to PO Boxes.

Posters measure 18×24.

THIS ITEM IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AT THIS TIME. IF YOU LIVE OVERSEAS AND WANT TO ORDER THIS ITEM PLEASE EMAIL WEBSALES@SUBPOP.COM AND WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT. CANADIANS, PLEASE ORDER AWAY—YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH!

Released: September 11, 2007

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine Dog T Shirt - 2060096

This is a heather lake blue American Apparel T shirt, style BB401 50/50 blend, with art from The Shepherd’s Dog album by Iron and Wine.

XS IS AMERICAN APPAREL LADIES LARGE STYLE BB301.

Released: September 25, 2007

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine Shepherd's Type T Shirt - 2060095

This is a brown American Apparel T shirt, style BB401 50/50 blend, with the type treatment from The Shepherd’s Dog album by Iron and Wine. XS IS AMERICAN APPAREL LADIES LARGE STYLE BB301.

Released: September 25, 2007

Iron and Wine / The Creek Drank the Cradle - SP600

Iron and Wine, the recorded Word of one Samuel Beam, Miami, Florida; is one of those one-guy-and-his -tapedeck affairs. The Creek Drank the Cradle is filled with hushed, restrained vocals, affecting lyrics from a naturalist’s perspective, exploring relationships and the hope born from them, all of which come across as though whispered to you personally, accompanied by guitar, banjo, slide guitar… Taken as a whole, The Creek Drank the Cradle_, Iron and Wine’swine debut CD, is an ode to an older South; a part of America that is defined by “traditional values,” pastoral imagery and arcane manners. Or maybe that’s just what we want to hear.

Released: 2002-09-24 (CD), 2003-05-20 (LP), 2002-09-24 (MP3s)

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins - OC28

This is Sam Beam (Iron and Wine as you know him) playing many a sweet lick with his buddies in Calexico. Do you want to know how this record came about? Well I will tell you…

Three years ago, Iron And Wine’s Sam Beam entertained the idea of recording with Calexico founding members Joey Burns and John Convertino as the backing band for what would have become his debut record. Due to unavoidable situations, that recording didn’t happen. Finally, after much acclaim for both bands, recording for “In The Reins” took place in December of 2004. It’s a collaborative affair that features seven Sam originals with the backing of the full Calexico band and vocals by Joey Burns. A truly harmonious affair with equal parts Iron and Wine and Calexico to satisfy fans of either or both. These tracks offer something new and exciting beyond what the listener has come to expect from either act.

Track Listing:

1. He Lays in The Reins
2. Prison on Route 41
3. A History of Lovers
4. Red Dust
5. Sixteen, Maybe Less
6. Burn That Broken Bed
7. Dead Man’s Will

Released: September 27, 2005

Iron and Wine / Such Great Heights +2 - SP724

European single for Iron and Wine’s cover of The Postal Service’s Such Great Heights (which, probably a little confusingly, originally appeared on The Postal Service single of the same name). Also included here are live versions of Naked As We Came (the original studio version of which is found on the Iron and Wine album Our Endless Numbered Days) and Trapeze Swinger (a song Sam contributed to the soundtrack for the movie In Good Company).

Released: July 31, 2006

Iron and Wine / I-Tunes Exclusive (4 Trks) - sp-0657

Iron and Wine / Trapeze Swinger - sp-0696

Itunes exclusive

Iron and Wine / I-Tunes Exclusive - sp-0711

Itunes exclusive digital EP

Iron and Wine / A green T-shirt with art by Sam Beam. - T-IRONGRASS

A green shirt with art by Sam Beam.

Released: August 15, 1974

Iron and Wine / A Maroon T-shirt with art by Sam Beam - T-MAROONGRASS

A maroon shirt with art by Sam Beam.

Released: February 14, 2005

Iron and Wine / A light blue shirt featuring the Woman King design (American Apparel) - T-IRONWOMAN

Dearest Sub Pop consumers, are you tired of shirts that are far too complicated, with abstract designs printed in the hippest most off kilter place imaginable? So are we, and that’s why we had our boy genius dirty Dusty Summers whip up this plain and simple Iron and Wine T-Shirt, for your consumption. So go ahead and consume it already…

Released: April 4, 2005

Iron and Wine / A lovely limited poster for the James Mercer, Iron And Wine, and Rosie Thomas Tour. Designed by Jess - S-SAMROSIEJAMES

Measures about 9″×25″.

Released: January 1, 2004

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine Poster - S-SAMBEAM

Iron and Wine promotional poster as painted by Sam Beam of Sam Beam, ol’ beardy’s hanging in some grass, so come n git it.

Released: August 15, 1974

Iron and Wine / Iron and Wine Tour Poster - S-SNAKEBIRD

This is a poster from the Iron and Wine spring 2005 tour with new Sub Pop signees Band of Horses, and it is a doozy. We’re never making posturds like this again, so get them while supplies last. Designed by Jeff Kleinsmith. Silkscreened, 18"x 24".

Released: May 5, 2005

Iron and Wine / The Sea And The Rhythm - SP619

5 songs recorded in Sam Beam’s bedroom from the same sessions that gave us 2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle. The Sea and the Rhythm includes “Jesus the Mexican Boy,” which has been a big audience favorite at recent Iron and Wine shows. Sam and his co-conspirators will be recording the new Iron and Wine full-length this summer at Chicago’s Engine Studios with Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Holopaw, Red Red Meat), scheduled for release in early 2004.

Released: September 9, 2003