Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-08-08-Fresh and Boston’s prestigious Berklee College

and Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music

released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate

" Both bands put their money where their mouths are

that didn’t so much appropriate its sources as transmute them into something that felt startlingly new and improbably accessible

Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-08-08-Fresh and Boston’s prestigious Berklee CollegeIron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative in the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's Woman King, a 6 song EP which distinguished itself from it's predecessors with a deepening integration of spiraling, dense opuses with intimate confessionals. On the Shepherd's Dog this integration is complete. Sam Beam has confessed to finding spiritual