Almost without Noise Ratio Sam Beam was presented to the world under the pseudonym of a personal project Iron & Wine with a soft and contemplative album that was titled 'The creek drank the craddle'. It's been nine years, and is now one of the best examples of American folk beginning of this century thanks to the evolution and maturity that has suffered its proposal discs as beautiful as the predecessor of that, 'Our Endless Numbered Days' , which continued the message expounded by his debut and gave a boost to his career shortly after taking the final leap with this sublime version of "Such Great Heights" by The Postal Service included in the film 'Garden State' (here translated as' something in common '). this was one of the most moving songs I've ever heard and although I already knew the work of this native Chaplin (South Carolina), it was not until then that I decided to learn his albums by heart in a wonderful rediscovery, and this fabulous' The sepherd's dog ', which showed him as an artist able to reinvent rock and a touch of his speech, was a pleasant surprise when three years later his work again crossed my path. A new treaty of folk exqusitez this time took his earlier influences, ie, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young, John Fahey, Elliot Smith and Nick Drake, the reduced a little and covered her with a touch of Calexico (actually a couple of years before this long, had issued an EP shared with them), progressive rock / psychedelic seventies and other styles that until now had not ventured to explore. With a fourth installment newly brought to light that at this time is on everyone's lips for quality, this album is in the background perhaps unfairly, because it falls short and is now essential to understand why its mutation an artist who imposes his approach today as opposed to his beloved in the early shyness. Much we owe to Michael Bridwell, brother of Ben Bridwell, lead singer of Band Of Horses, that due to his friendship with the musician protagonist of today's post, was responsible for move their embryonic demos to give a decent promotion, and without it we could not enjoy songs like the give this third step of dreamy and warm magic, such as "Pagan Angel and a borrowed car", showing that underwent a change in his temperament and his songwriting, in view of sound and theme lettristic optimistic or at least something more light, then add multiple instruments hitherto conspicuous by their absence, "White Tooth Man", the first debt to the 70's, also changed the vocal was a slight falsetto nerve pulse to the beat of ethnic percussion, "Lovesong of the Buzzard" is simply beautiful, bossanova with a slight aroma and a warm rhythm where refrain reeluce emotional one carat, all with a tendency brave country, "Carousel," which shrinks the soul with its tessitura airs fragile and sixties, with the digitized voice and serving four minutes most beautiful of the lot, "House by the sea", a marvel, my favorite album to make matters worse, rhythm and melody hand in hand with a letter that is pure poetry, "Wolves (Song of the spherd's dog) "a cut that sounds strange but tasty nearest Australian Xavier Rudd, Ben Harper when jueguetea the blues side of Jimi Hendrix or even Alabama 3 (authors of the main theme of 'The Sopranos, if someone did not know the name), "Boy With a Coin", another delight, with palms, attractive rates and highest slides that reflect the best spirit of alt-country, and the trio that make up "The devil never sleeps" "Peace Beneath the City" and "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" (the latter appears in the controversial film 'Twilight' in a scene where you see the beautiful Kristen Stewart dance to their song), which complement each perfection in this musical tribute to Yankee culture that seems to claim in their approach to New Orleans jazz, gospel and folk Alabama Southern United States, respectively. A genius in his speech this time based primarily on dissatisfaction with the re-election of George Bush as president of his country and was supported in the recording by Joey Burns and Paul Niehaus, members of Calexico and jazz musicians Matt Lux and Rob Burger. A curious fact is that the project name (Iron & Wine), comes from a dietary supplement called "steel meat and wine" he found in a store during the filming of a movie that was involved.
SHEPARD'S THE DOG (2007) 
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