Paramount Theatre
2025 Broadway
510.893.2300
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Iron & Wine
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Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8pm)
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$28.50
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Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron & Wine were textbook lo-fi indie folk, there was a precision to his approach — a sense that every slide guitar and gently intoned vocal had its place. Leaping ahead a few stylistic light-years, Beam's outstanding new album, The Shepherd's Dog, sees Iron & Wine's mosaic expanding to encompass an entire band's worth of strategically placed musical tiles. The record plays like a folk-based version of Talking Heads' Remain in Light, flitting through genres as previously un-Iron & Wine-y as Afrobeat and dub. Americana-loving, noise-and-melody tinkerers Califone join the bill tonight.
