Iron & Wine
The Creek Drank the Cradle
Label ©  Sub Pop
Release Year  2002
Length  39:29
Genre  Americana
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  I-0015
Bitrate  (various) Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Lion's Mane  
       2:50  
      2.  
      		 Bird Stealing Bread  
       4:21  
      3.  
      		 Faded from the Winter  
       3:18  
      4.  
      		 Promising Light  
       2:49  
      5.  
      		 The Rooster Moans  
       3:25  
      6.  
      		 Upward over the Mountain  
       5:56  
      7.  
      		 Southern Anthem  
       3:54  
      8.  
      		 An Angry Blade  
       3:48  
      9.  
      		 Weary Memory  
       4:01  
      10.  
      		 Promise What You Will  
       2:24  
      11.  
      		 Muddy Hymnal  
       2:43  
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      Iron & Wine is Sam Beam, a back-porch Florida singer-songwriter whose sad little songs pack a helluva wallop. Beam's immediately likable tunes paint such clear pictures that songs like "Southern Anthem" and "Muddy Hymnal" are more akin to short stories by Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor than to your average pop ditty. Recorded in his living room on a vintage four-track, The Creek Drank the Cradle co-stars cassette hiss, ambient room sound, and Beam himself. A stripped-down, one-man band, Beam contributes delicious Delta-flavored slide guitar, passable banjo, and deliriously beautiful harmonizing. Beam isn't just a songwriter the equal of Will Oldham and Leonard Cohen (really--and it'll be a surprise if folks don't immediately start covering him), the boy can sing. His melt-in-your-head-but-not-in-your-ears voice is instantly recognizable and will certainly please fans of Nick Drake, Lou Barlow, and Elliott Smith. --Mike McGonigal
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