Label: Sub Pop
Released 5/7/2021
Archive Series Volume No. 5: Tallahassee is the lost-in-time debut album from Iron & Wine. A collection of songs recorded three years prior to his official Sub Pop debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002). A period before the concept of Iron & Wine existed and principal songwriter Sam Beam was studying at Florida State University with the intent of pursuing a career in film. Tallahassee documents the very first steps on a journey that would lead to a career as one of America’s most original and distinctive singer-songwriters. The recordings – all captured in the house where Beam and bandmate EJ Holowicki lived – have a “live in the room” feel akin to say Neil Young’s Harvest or Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left, rather than the homespun lo-fi 4-track home recording experiment taking place at the time.
Track listing:
- Why Hate the Winter
- This Solemn Day
- Loaning Me Secrets
- John's Glass Eye
- Calm on the Valley
- Ex-Lover Lucy Jones
- Elizabeth
- Show Him the Ground
- Straight and Tall
- Cold Town
- Valentine