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artist:iron & wine
album:the creek drank the cradle
some friends were raving about this album, so i went out and bought it. i listened to it once and didn't get it, so it went into the pile of disks on my desk and just sat around collecting dust.
i don't remember exactly what made me revisit this album, but i did it, and the results the second time were much different from the first. i know that i had downloaded a brand new gig in which Jesse Lacey sound checked with "upward over the mountain" but i was already listening to this CD by then, and i cant remember for the life of me why.
at any rate, i still find this CD to be the least accessible personally. i like it enough, and the lyrical content is top-notch Sam Beam stuff, but its so garbled and mumbled and lo-fi (there's that word again...I'm sensing a theme for the day) that i find it really hard to really get into. i think the problem here with me is that i typically listen to music in the car, and stuff like this album by iron & wine and oh, inverted world by the shins isn't really the kind of stuff one wants to listen to when driving around pedal to the metal. i don't know. maybe I'm wrong. personally, though, id much rather cruse around to some pop-punk or something with a little bit of funk to it.
these same songs with a little bit of funk added to them during a live show, especially in performances like the bonnaroo ones, are perfect. like i said, its not the lyrics, its the simplicity of the music, which, for me, is too simple.
however, this CD is absolutely perfect for sitting around on the porch on a summer morning just watching life go on outside of your little space...and of course all while drinking lemonade.
this video is the bonnaroo version of the song, but honest to Pete, iron & wine at bonnaroo was a life-altering experience for me.
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