In The Reins

General | Jan 2006

Reviews

canuck
Reviewed 2006-02-08
Whispered neo-folk singer songwriter mixed with southwestern indie rock. Iron & Wine is mostly acoustic guitar, banjo, slide guitar and vocals. Calexico is more of a rock set up plus pedal steel slide guitar, trumpets, marimba. So combine all that instrumentation and that’s what you have here. I’m not sure I think Calexico adds anything on some of the songs here, but in my book Iron & Wine basically can’t do anything wrong.
-Adrian
My picks: 1, 5, 7 FCC: 3
1. med-slow 6/8. nice pedal steel guitar. Spanish (Italian?) operatic singing.
2. slow. nice pedal steel guitar. banjo and harmonica later on.
3. FCC (“fuck ‘em” 2x) medium tempo. Nice harmonies. trumpets
4. slow-ish, bluesy guitar riff. organ. speeds up. mostly instrumental/ solo. Slow w/ vocals again at the end.
5. med-slow and soft. lots of nice harmonies and slide guitar.
6. medium tempo. muted trumpet(s).
7. slow. prominent acoustic guitar. marimba and piano in the background

Recent airplay

Prison On Route 41
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Burn That Broken Bed
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Charting

2006-01-08 — 2006-03-12
Week EndingAirplays
Mar 12 1
Mar 5 3
Feb 26 3
Feb 19 2
Feb 12 5
Feb 5 2
Jan 29 5
Jan 22 8

Track listing

1. He Lays In The Reins
2. Prison On Route 41
3. A History Of Lovers
4. Red Dust
5. Sixteen Maybe Less
6. Burn That Broken Bed
7. Dead Man's Will