Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" 2024-04-05 taking the listener on a

taking the listener on a drive through the California desert from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree

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and their band after the blaze

with Dun engineering the album's drums from across the country

most of the eighteen tracks on offer are still staples in the band’s set to this day

Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" 2024-04-05 taking the listener on aIron and Wine is the one guy and his tape deck project of Samuel Beam. It's an ode to an older South, defined by traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. Beam teaches cinematography at a local Miami college, and this connection with film shows in the construct of his songs. It's arresting stuff; intimate "American Gothic" style portraits and landscapes with traditional sounding backdrops, and laced with seductive melodies. "A "