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Sam Beam just sorta stumbled into Iron & Wine. When he moved to Tallahassee to attend graduate school at Florida State Universityâs College of Motion Picture Arts in the late 1990s, writing songs was merely a hobby. It was more like an extension of his filmmaking, and he didnât think much of the music he did make, at least not until a friend lent him a four-track recorder. Setting his songs to tape and playing them back, Beam could actually hear them for the first time. He started making decisions about structure, lyrics, melodies, arrangements, and vocals. Through another friend, he landed a song on a compilation by the Portland-based
Trois ans avant le premier album d’Iron & Wine “
The Creek Drank the Cradle”, Sam Bean avait enregistré toute une collection de chansons, posées sur un disque “Tallahassee” en 1998-1999, qui n’était jamais sortie. Si le leader du groupe avait fini par les oublier, son ancien colocataire et compère EJ Holowicki avait gardé trace de ces enregistrements, qui sortiront chez Sub Pop le 7 mai, sous le titre “
Archive Series Volume No.5: Tallahassee”. En voici le premier extrait, “Calm on the Valley” :
1. Why Hate the Winter
2. This Solemn Day