Iron & Wine

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Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name for Florida singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Raised in South Carolina, 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. Featuring acoustic guitars, banjo, and slide guitar, the album's music has been compared, variously, to that of Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, and Ralph Stanley.

In 2003 The Sea & The Rhythm was released, an EP collecting other home-recorded tracks along the same lines as those on the debut. Beam's sophomore album, Our Endless Numbered Days (2004), was recorded in a professional studio with a significant increase in fidelity. The focus still lies on acoustic material, but the inclusion of other band members gives rise to a very different sound.

Beam released an EP titled Woman King in February 2005, and the EP In the Reins, a collaboration with Calexico, was released in September 2005.

His cover of The Postal Service's song Such Great Heights was featured in an advertisement for M&M's, in the 2004 film Garden State (and on its popular soundtrack) and in 2006 in an Ask.com advertisement. Beam's version of Such Great Heights is a cover of the song written by Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, as is made clear on Beam's own site.

Having graduated from the Florida State University Film School, he makes music videos. Also with his MFA degree, he was a professor of Film and Cinematography at Miami International University of Art & Design.

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