The Creek Drank the Cradle
by: Iron & Wine
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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
Album Description:
Debut album featuring Samuel Beam, they have been on theroad with Ugly Casanova (Modest Mouse) and are described as intimate American Gothic style portraits & landscapes. SubPop. 2002.
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
Album Description:
Debut album featuring Samuel Beam, they have been on theroad with Ugly Casanova (Modest Mouse) and are described as intimate American Gothic style portraits & landscapes. SubPop. 2002.
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- Astoundingly Beautiful
This recording is astoundingly beautiful to my 36 year-old ears.So much in fact, I've been moved to post my very first Amazon review. It's quite rare that I truly love any recently released music.Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, CSN, Neil Young, Donovan, Don Mclean, have been my perpetual (folky) favorite artists for the past 25 years.Sam Beam has renewed my faith in new music. His unassuming, humble presence combined with beautiful, often times subtly spiritual songwriting and angelic/melodic/quiet ... Read More
Rating: - Pure beauty
I'm not writing this as a practical, useful review, instead I just want to let the world know that for me this CD is a religious experience!Very few works of art in this world can bring one to both laughter and tears; for me this CD is an artist representation of human life in all its experience, all its stages.This piece of art, along with only a few others, has impacted my life in a strong, almost magical way.If it can do that to one person, then I suspect it's at least worth checking out.I know beauty ... Read More
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- The calm during the storm
Sam Beam creates music so hushed, subdued and quaint that it's very easy to imagine listening to it and have it float right by without a fuss. There's no doubt that he has the talent for crafting hooks and reeling in his audience with quiet deception, but when you create an album of nothing but soft vocals, banjo and slide guitar, a big arena sound is not what you're going to get (and hurrah to him for that).
It requires a few listens to truly get into "Creek" (even while it grabs you early) but affection ... Read More
Rating: - Great music!
Great CD-My wife and I play it with dinner or drinks- very enjoyable.
Rating: - Beauty
All iron and wine albums have a crazy way of painting a beautiful masterpiece in the mind, with your eyes closed and fully focused on the music its almost like letting yourself get lost in your most beautiful dream. Upwards over the mountain, is an amazing song. I fell asleap after listening to it and it just sets me at so much peace. This album slows life down for you in a way that nothing else can.
- Astoundingly BeautifulThis recording is astoundingly beautiful to my 36 year-old ears.So much in fact, I've been moved to post my very first Amazon review. It's quite rare that I truly love any recently released music.Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, CSN, Neil Young, Donovan, Don Mclean, have been my perpetual (folky) favorite artists for the past 25 years.Sam Beam has renewed my faith in new music. His unassuming, humble presence combined with beautiful, often times subtly spiritual songwriting and angelic/melodic/quiet ... Read More
- Pure beautyI'm not writing this as a practical, useful review, instead I just want to let the world know that for me this CD is a religious experience!Very few works of art in this world can bring one to both laughter and tears; for me this CD is an artist representation of human life in all its experience, all its stages.This piece of art, along with only a few others, has impacted my life in a strong, almost magical way.If it can do that to one person, then I suspect it's at least worth checking out.I know beauty ... Read More
- The calm during the stormSam Beam creates music so hushed, subdued and quaint that it's very easy to imagine listening to it and have it float right by without a fuss. There's no doubt that he has the talent for crafting hooks and reeling in his audience with quiet deception, but when you create an album of nothing but soft vocals, banjo and slide guitar, a big arena sound is not what you're going to get (and hurrah to him for that).
It requires a few listens to truly get into "Creek" (even while it grabs you early) but affection ... Read More
- Great music!Great CD-My wife and I play it with dinner or drinks- very enjoyable.
- Beauty All iron and wine albums have a crazy way of painting a beautiful masterpiece in the mind, with your eyes closed and fully focused on the music its almost like letting yourself get lost in your most beautiful dream. Upwards over the mountain, is an amazing song. I fell asleap after listening to it and it just sets me at so much peace. This album slows life down for you in a way that nothing else can.
