Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2024-08-09 being released on the first

being released on the first of January and its opening track warmly greeting listeners with the lyrics "Begin the day with a friendly voice

'Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)' and 'Suburbia' also feature on Please

The album title is a nod to the town in Maryland where he spent a year sleeping on a couch in his friend Big Lenbo's basement

While I won't be able to match this album for it's depth and broad color forms in the future

in January 2021

Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2024-08-09 being released on the firstIron 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 it's 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