Iron & Wine is tagged as: folk, indie, singer-songwriter, acoustic, indie rock
Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam (born July 26, 1974) lives in Dripping Springs, Texas, outside Austin and has released three studio albums EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only release that contains a live album (a recording of his 2005 Bonnaroo performance) The name Iron & Wine is taken from a dietary supplement named "Beef Iron & Wine" that he found in a country store
Beam grew up outside of Columbia South Carolina United States where his father worked in the regional administration and his mother was a teacher, he graduated from Florida State University Film School with an MFA until the first Iron & Wine albums Beam main source of income was as a professor of film ettd film at the University of Miami and Miami International University of Art & Design, he had written songs for over seven years before a friend lent him a four-track recorder His friends handed out copies of demos that he had done and the owner of Sub Pop Records contacted personally Beam and suggested a deal
Beam released his first album The Creek Drank the Cradle of the Sub Pop label in 2002, Beam wrote out recorded and produced every track on the album by himself at a studio in his home in the album features acoustic guita... Read More About Iron & Wine Biography...
