― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
It was also the album of the year for Byron Coley, which I was not expecting.
I think it's very, very beautiful. "Upward Over the Mountain" actually made me tear up the firdt couple of time through. No kidding.
― Joe Gross, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gazuga (gazuga), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe Gross, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'll concede 'Bird Stealing Bread' might be classic as far as song's go.
― Chris Davis (Chris Davis), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Brian the Snorf, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic. As much as I like Beam's new, more robust sound, there's a Southern charm and melancholy here that he's never repreated.
And Bird Stealing Bread is a devestatingly sad song (I can never figure out if he's singing to a former love or a dead child).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The truth. Creek is still his best record.
― MRZBW, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Daniel, ar eyou the one who mentioned that as a possible reading of Bird Stealing Bread elsewhere on ILM? Ever since I read someone posit that was what it was about (a dead child) I can barely listen to that song, it is unbearably sad to me now. Even though I don't think it's actually about that.
― akm, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Daniel, ar eyou the one who mentioned that as a possible reading of Bird Stealing Bread elsewhere on ILM?
Yeah, that was me.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry I messed up the song for you. It's an amazing piece of art (especially in light of how relatively simple it is), but -- especially with that interpretation -- the song can be hard to listen to.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Blue Sky Project: A Clorox Charity Collection
Lion's Mane is the opening track from Iron & Wine's 2002 release, The Creek Drank The Cradle. It evokes the innocence of youth and was used in a Clorox Disinfectant Wipes commercial called "Touch Me," in which dirty surfaces call out to the eager hands of young children.
― dad a, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This album really does hold up well, Clorox notwithstanding.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't see how "Bird Stealing Bread" can be about a dead child at all. I mean, maybe particular lines in isolation might be resonant, but when you get to a line like "Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in" -- that seems so obviously directed to his ex about her new beau. Who is the "his" and who is the "your" otherwise?
― jaymc, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
''He'' may be God and ''your'' may be the dead child.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 29 March 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a stretch.
― bug, Saturday, 29 March 2008 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
It's one of two ways I always interpreted the song (and, BTW, not based on that isolated lyric, but based on the lyrics overall). I don't think it's a stretch. As I say, I wasn't trying to hear the song that way, I just did. Now, admittedly, the fact that I'm the father of a then-two or three year old girl (I can't recall when I first heard the song) may have something to do with how I heard it, but -- like many, if not most, people -- I often hear and understand lyrics in the context of their own life, experience, hopes and fears.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 29 March 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, ''in the context of my own life, experience, hopes and fears,'' is what I meant to say.
Damn typos.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 29 March 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
perfect album for a miserable dreary ny afternoon in april
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
totally. you know what this record is not good for? driving. my wife and i were listening to it in the car, and something about the mix makes it just sound like scratching on guitar strings and muttering, no matter what volume. this might be a problem with our soundsystem/loud car, though.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^ haha. This album is great, but way too sleepy to be heard while driving.
― musicfanatic, Friday, 1 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the new album is way underrated
― uberweiss, Friday, 1 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
man, i just cannot get into it
― tylerw, Friday, 1 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
It really is great.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
im still struggling with it too.
― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
new ep is very pleasant
― nxd, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:00 (four months ago) link
Only heard the one song with Fiona Apple so far, which I really liked, but it's a full album, no?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:16 (four months ago) link
yep sorry x
― nxd, Friday, 3 May 2024 14:28 (four months ago) link
No problem, wondered if maybe there was something else recently too!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:42 (four months ago) link
This guy hasn’t excited me in a long time, but I still hold this album dear. It has a very specific intimacy. Smells of dirt and blood and a girl I used to know in South Carolina. And Upward Over The Mountain is a special song.
― Mule, Thursday, 11 July 2024 07:17 (two months ago) link
Smells of dirt and blood and a girl I used to know in South Carolina
your secret is safe with us
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 11 July 2024 11:59 (two months ago) link
Fucking hell, when you put it like that. Yikes.
(She lives in Detroit now, presumably very well)
― Mule, Thursday, 11 July 2024 13:21 (two months ago) link
you put it like that! lolI loved Shepherd's Dog at the time but it was kind of a turning point i never bothered keeping up with. So i get what you're saying.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 11 July 2024 14:07 (two months ago) link
I met Sam in the Spain around 2004. He’s a South Carolinian as well. One of the nicest guys
― Heez, Thursday, 11 July 2024 15:06 (two months ago) link
a special record
― nxd, Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link