Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" Alliance variant Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) and

Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

the escape of Harry Houdini thanks to his wife passing him the key to the padlock via a kiss (as told in the song 'Houdini' on the album)

Expanding beyond their ska roots

after the opening track of the album

40 mm drivers for outstanding sound quality

Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" Alliance variant Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) andIron and Wine is the one guy and his tape deck project of Samuel Beam. It's an ode to an older South, defined by traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. Beam teaches cinematography at a local Miami college, and this connection with film shows in the construct of his songs. It's arresting stuff; intimate "American Gothic" style portraits and landscapes with traditional sounding backdrops, and laced with seductive melodies. "A "