Cover of Shepherd's Dog
Unable to wait until the release date of the new album by Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) – Shepherd’s Dog – until late September. I don’t understand why labels delay like this as it only increases the number of people who will (like me!) grab a leaked copy via the many p2p sources on the net rather than buy the cd or use a legal download site.
It’s a great album and well worth not waiting for!
The stand out track for me is called Resurrection Fern which you can hear by following this link
The mood of the song reminds me a lot of ‘The Trapeze Swinger’ which has not been released on an Iron & Wine album, only on the soundtrack album to the movie ‘In Good Company’. ( An excellent live version of this track can however be found on the concert with Calexico which can be downloaded from NPR here ).
Resurrection Fern is equally ambiguous in terms of meaning being couched in highly poetic language that I find very moving even if I would be hard pushed to explain what the song means.
