iron & wine - tree by the river/half moon (studio-2011) two songs that always put a smile on my face

[mr_lebowski]

Couple of very groovy 70's-sounding tracks from Sam Beam's "Kiss Each Other Clean" CD ...

And for the I&W traditionalists ... who hate hearing Sam with anything more than his acoustic ... this is also brilliant ... so I see their argument

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Sorry for the late reply

Never listened to these guys before your post, but it's on my play list now. I almost never spend money on brand new (to me) artists preferring to chase 'em around YouTube and other (seedier) P2P music sources for a while...

But I dropped money for this song halfway through the 1st listening:

[mr_lebowski]

2. No need to apologize, feel free to reply anytime Sarg ...

If you like that song, pretty much both his first two records are ... all that.

Here's a couple more great songs of theirs (mostly 'they' are one dude, but ...) from The Shepherds Dog CD (which has tons more instruments than the really early discs, but they're all organic stuff, he didn't start putting in electronics til his next disc, Kiss Each Other Clean, from which the songs in OP are from)

[The Polack MSgt]

4. Thanks Mr. L

[mr_lebowski]

5. If you like this stuff, you gotta love Ray LaMontagne as well ...

This whole album (this is the title track) is phenomenal. Recorded live in studio, every song is good to great (even if it's mostly downbeat and some will break your damn heart), the playing is fantastic, his voice is amazing ... overall, it's just great Americana.

All his albums are good, but this one is the classic so far.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Also, his EP 'Woman King' is awesome, came right before Shepherds Dog

The whole thing is on YT as a single track but here's the opening eponymous track ...