Iron & Wine - Norfolk 6/20/05
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Artist: Iron & WineEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-04-18
Music Label: Sub Pop
Music reviews of Norfolk 6/20/05
Music Review: IRON AND WINE! LIVE! LIVE! ITS ALIVE!
Rating: 5 Stars
For anyone who has ever bought an IRON AND WINE album or EP, they know how fantastic the voice, songwriting, and playing is. But unless you've seen this band live, you are missing a whole dimension of the band that is simply missing on the studio recordings. I never saw them live, but I DID see the band perform on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, and was amazed. I had looked for this recording for some time, but its availability was limited. Finding it on AMAZON.COM was a great discovery, and I ordered it right away. Just like a Bob Dylan concert, where songs opens up, and are explored live, rather than just slavishly reproducing the studio version, IRON AND WINE harvest that same musical field. This is a complete show, and it has all the changes in tempo, style and musicial density, that you might expect from a band (or SAM BEAN), who has moved from solo guitar songs, to 8 piece band psychedelic folk peices from the SHEPHERD'S DOG tour. However, for SHEPARDS DOG fans, sorry, this music comes from the tour after the ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS album, and the EPS called WOMAN KING, and IN THE REINS. It was during the recording of those two EPS, when Sam Bean's music made its first metamorphosis into the TOM WAIT's "SWORDFISH TROMBONE" period. So, you get a nice selection of SAM singing some of the solo folk songs from the first album, and the sparse arrangements used on ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS, right to the early folk rock stylings from the EPS. Just like a good DYLAN concert, you get a bit of FOLK Dylan, a bit of ROCK Dylan, a bit of Acoustic country rock, etc.
The live album opens quietly with a beautiful rendition of "Sunset Soon Forgotten". The next number adds his wife's lovely harmonies, and some banjo to the guitar and voice mix. After that, the third song (Woman King) adds even more instrumentation, percussion, bass, violin and slide guitar. FREE UNTIL THEY TAKE ME HOME has a long, spacey, extended coda to the song, which gives the song a cool dreamy quality. Each song becomes more complex, extended, and explored, until LILITHS SONG, which adds a fantastic grunge guitar bit, next to the acoustic guitar figures Sam likes to play, and the contrast with keyboards, or an actual horn. The drummer stops playing percussion here, and sits down on his kit, and the song suggests what is to come later in the show. LATER. Because after this first "wave" of rock, it slows down again, and SAM plays a series of folk/rock songs. The percussionist is on marimba at times, and you have bongos, bass, and guitars. This live album has Sam's wife's harmonies a bit stronger in the mix, and that really makes these songs sparkle. Most of the repetoire are favorites from the albums, tho the EP songs are less known. Some material is "LIVE ONLY", songs unknown until the recent release of AROUND THE WELL's 2CD offering of these rare songs. I've played this concert so many times, that it becomes difficult to say "THIS IS THE STAND OUT TRACK". Let's just say its an "ON" night for the band. NAKED AS WE CAME is beautifully played, of course. This song has one of the most poignant, bittersweet evocations of post mortem love written for a long time. Also worth noting, the lovely slide guitar work interlaced with Sam's acoustic guitar work on BIRD STEALING BREAD-- difficult not to simply be estactic over. FREEDOM HANGS LIKE HEAVEN rocked out more than the album version. By the time the band plays TEETH IN THE GRASS (towards the end of the CD), you'd have to be deaf not to be euphorically transported. TEETH is one of the songs that gets overhauled live, into a song where pure, angelic folk rock meets the metalic "TEETH" in the GRASS, grinding, gripping, banging out a new version of that great song, that kicks the studio version's butt .
In the end, just ask yourself how much of a fan of Sam Bean's music you are. If you only like the folk stuff on the first album, and the first acoustic EP of outtakes from the first album, you might not like this live album. Altho I'd say 15-20% of the songs are just Sam and acoutic, and little else, you have the band included on most of the other songs. The recording quality is wonderful, and there's very little audience noise, except when someone yells out their approval or recognition of the material, and applause. I have one BIG complaint...WHO THOUGHT THEY SHOULD WAIT FOUR YEARS TO RELEASE THIS TO THE PUBLIC? And, do we have to wait four years again, until we hear the concerts from the SPEPHERDS DOG tour?
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Record Store Day live cd limited edition of 3500. 1. Sunset Soon Forgotten 2. Jezebel 3. Woman King 4. Free Until They Cut Me Down 5. Evening on the Ground (Lilith's Song) 6. Love and Some Verses 7. Bird Stealing Bread 8. The Night Descending 9. Naked as We Came 10. Communion Cups and Someone's Coat 11. Fever Dream 12. On Your Wings 13. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven 14. Upward Over The Mountain 15. Teeth in the Grass 16. Southern Anthem 17. My Lady's House 18. The Trapeze SwingerAlternative Rock CDs
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