Iron And Wine: The Shepherd's Dog on CD
The Shepherd's Dog
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Sub Pop
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2007
- Item number:
- 5994041
- UPC/EAN:
- 0098787071023
- Release date:
- 20.9.2007
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| LP | EUR 25.99* |
Iron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative In the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's Woman King, a 6-song EP which distinguished itself from its predecessors with a deepening integration of spiraling, dense opuses with intimate confessionals. On The Shepherd's Dog this integration is complete. Sam Beam has confessed to finding spiritual inspiration in Tom Waits' pi_ce de r_sistance, Swordfishtrombones, an album with which Waits upended his previous strategies and forged a new musical language for himself. Recorded by Sam with the assistanc...
Reviews
M. Brüggemeyer in Rolling Stone 10/07: "Filigran blendet Sam Beam hier alte Balladen, Westcoast-Folk, Psychedelia und weirde Americana zusammen. Breitet Jingle-Jangle- und Rückwärtsgitarren, hypnotische Harmonien und Rhythmen wie eine pastellfarbene Tagesdecke über seine Songs, die in ihrer zauberhaften Naivität an die besten Hippietage im Laurel Canyon erinnern."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
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2 White Tooth Man
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3 Lovesong Of The Buzzard
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4 Carousel
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5 House By The Sea
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6 Innocent Bones
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7 Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog)
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8 Resurrection Fern
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9 Boy With A Coin
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10 The Devil Never Sleeps
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11 Peace Beneath The City
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12 Flightless Bird, American Mouth
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