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Columbia, South Carolina, United States (2002 – present)

Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer and composer Sam Beam (born July 26, 1974). He currently resides in Dripping Springs, Texas, outside Austin. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live album (a recording of his 2005 Bonnaroo performance). The name Iron & Wine is taken from a dietary supplement named “Beef Iron & Wine” that he found in a general store.

Beam was raised outside Columbia, South Carolina, United States where his father worked in land management and his mother was a schoolteacher. He graduated from the Florida State University Film School with an MFA degree. Until the first Iron & Wine album, Beam’s main source of income was as a professor of film and cinematography at the University of Miami and Miami International University of Art & Design. He had been writing songs for over seven years before a friend lent him a four-track recorder. His friends handed out copies of demos that he had made, and the owner of Sub Pop Records personally contacted Beam and proposed a deal.

Beam released his first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, on the Sub Pop label in 2002; Beam wrote, performed, recorded, and produced every track on the album by himself at a studio in his home. The album features guitars, , and slide guitar; its music has been compared, variously, to that of Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, and Ralph Stanley.
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  • KHsonicdude23

    Sam Beam's rocking the Epic Beard Man look.

    Saturday morning

  • muymechuda

    <3

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  • AbortingMary

    I guess I could listen to this when I'm going to sleep, but I don't see much point for it to exist otherwise. And I already have Of the Wand and the Moon.

    Saturday morning

  • smellslikenath

    love love that

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  • M3tthew

    http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Grokko

    10 days ago

  • e-stone

    i love what Sam Beam said in an interview right around when Kiss Each Other Clean came out: "...but you push yourself to do something you haven't done. I hope people like [the new record]. I think some people will dig it and some people will wish it was The Creek Drank the Cradle. And that's cool. I wish they would come along with me, but I'm glad they enjoyed that one record." I'm coming along with you Mr. Beam.

    11 days ago

  • krustywazoo

    Love, love, love I&W.

    14 days ago

  • stranging

    i love iron & wine so much i can't even put it into words; sam beam, you are my love<3

    16 days ago
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