{"id":146184,"date":"2026-02-28T20:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/?p=146184"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:40:26","slug":"americana-stalwart-iron-wine-is-lovely-as-ever-on-latest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/americana-stalwart-iron-wine-is-lovely-as-ever-on-latest-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Americana stalwart Iron &#038; Wine is lovely as ever on latest album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-iron-amp-wine\">IRON &amp; WINE<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hen\u2019s Teeth (Sub Pop)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve not heard any of Sam Beam\u2019s eight full-length albums as Iron &amp; Wine, then it\u2019s about time you fixed that with <em>Hen\u2019s Teeth<\/em>. Beam has defined 21st-century Americana from the log cabin acoustic reveries of his 2002 debut album, going on to expand his sound and band exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s <em>Light Verse<\/em> album and this followup are close cousins, with the musicians sat right in a fertile groove during recording sessions \u2013 applying a loose jazzy grip to a cosy melange of folk, rock and country. Beam\u2019s 23-year-old daughter, Arden, contributes poignant harmonies and backing vocals on several songs, with <em>Singing Saw<\/em> being the pick of the bunch and <em>Defiance, Ohio<\/em> a sweet tropicalia-tinged tune replete with whistling and strings. I\u2019m With Her duet with Beam on <em>Robin\u2019s Egg<\/em> and <em>Wait Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers of poetry course through the lyrics, with <em>Grace Notes<\/em> (\u201c<em>Forever was a word like a name in a sidewalk \u2026 live like I\u2019m digging just for filling in a hole<\/em>\u201d) rejoicing in living in the moment and being thankful for small mercies \u2013 a rare joy for us all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>words CHRIS SEAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2846566095\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ironandwine.bandcamp.com\/album\/hens-teeth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hen&#8217;s Teeth by Iron &amp; Wine<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzmag.co.uk\/iron-wine-hens-teeth-album-review\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRON &amp; WINE Hen\u2019s Teeth (Sub Pop) If you\u2019ve not heard any of Sam Beam\u2019s eight full-length albums as Iron &amp; Wine, then it\u2019s about time you fixed that with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.buzzmag.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Iron-Wine-credit-Kim-Black.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-craft-leisure-news","category-recentpost"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/assets.buzzmag.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Iron-Wine-credit-Kim-Black.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-08-28 20:40:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146186,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146184\/revisions\/146186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vale50plus.org\/clone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}