Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days

Released March 23, 2004

TRACK LISTING

1. "On Your Wings" - 3:53
2. "Naked as We Came" - 2:33
3. "Cinder and Smoke" - 5:44
4. "Sunset Soon Forgotten" - 3:20
5. "Teeth in the Grass" - 2:22
6. "Love and Some Verses" - 3:40
7. "Radio War" - 1:56
8. "Each Coming Night" - 3:28
9. "Free Until They Cut Me Down" - 4:35
10. "Fever Dream" - 4:16
11. "Sodom, South Georgia" - 4:59
12. "Passing Afternoon" - 4:01

* 7" vinyl single

1. "No Moon"
2. "Sinning Hands"

* Bonus CD

1. "Cinder and Smoke" (demo)
2. "Swans and the Swimming"
3. "Free Until They Cut Me Down" (demo)
4. "Hickory"

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Amazon.com

Florida’s brilliant singer-songwriter Sam Beam expands Iron & Wine from solo project to a gaggle of friends and family on slide guitar, percussion, and backing vocals on his second album. Fans need not worry--the hushed immediacy and rich melodies remain the focus--but new flavors abound. For instance, the strange "Cinder And Smoke" sounds like a collaboration (with banjos of course) between America, Robert Wyatt and Low. Meanwhile, "On Your Wings," "Free Until They Cut Me Down," and "Teeth in the Grass" showcase a brooding, earthy, Southern-rock-on-laudanum side that the band had previously only demonstrated in concert. It's rare when an artist who's become known for bedroom recordings makes the transition to the studio to produce work that's better--Daniel Johnston, Lou Barlow, and Liz Phair all made their defining moments crouched above a cassette recorder at home. But Beam is the exception to the rule, as he has easily bested himself on the second Iron & Wine album. --Mike McGonigal

Entertainment Weekly

"launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow"

Stereophile

"The melodies are haunting or beautiful—sometimes both—and Beam’s lyrics approach poetry in the best sense of the word."

Spin

"Beam has given us his second straight masterwork: self-assured, spellbinding, and richly, refreshingly adult."

Magnet

Best of 2004

Spin

..Beam is a fearlessly accessible songwriter, framing his melancholy in concrete imagery and solid, inviting melodies. - (Joe Gross)  


SONGS TO LISTEN TO:

Each Coming Night

Will you say to me when I'm gone:
"Your face has faded but lingers on
Because light strikes a deal with each coming night"

Love and Some Verses

Love is a dress that you made long
To hide your knees
Love to say this to your face
I'll love you only

Free Until They Cut Me Down

When the wind wraps me like the reaper's hand
I will swing free until they cut me down
Papa dont tell me what I could've done
She's the one who begged me
"Take me home"

Passing Afternoon

There are things that drift away
Like our endless numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe
In the hymns her mother sings

Sodom, South Georgia

And Sodom, south Georgia
Woke like a tree full of bees
Buried in Christmas bows
And a blanket of weeds

Fever Dream

Some days her shape in the doorway
Will speak to me
A bird's wing on the window
Sometimes I'll hear when she's sleeping
Her fever dream

Naked As We Came

Eyes wide open
Naked as we came
One will spread our
Ashes round the yard

Cinder and Smoke

Give me your hand
The dog in the garden row is covered in mud
And dragging your mother's clothes