Outdoor Sports Guide Magazine is giving away tickets for the Salt Lake Twilight Concert Series @slctwilight.
You can win two tickets to IRON & WINE playing this Thursday, August 16th by following us on Twitter @osportsguidemag and posting: "I just entered to win free tix to see @ironandwine at @slctwilight from @osportsguidemag.
Leave us a comment below to let us know you did it for an extra entry. Three winners will be selected on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012.
Singer/songwriter Samuel Beam, who rose
to prominence with a blend of whispered vocals and softly homespun indie folk,
chose the moniker Iron & Wine after coming across a dietary supplement
named "Beef Iron & Wine" while working on a film. Raised in South
Carolina, Beam received his bachelor's degree in art from Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond and later his Master of Fine Arts degree from Florida
State University Film School. Although Beam would later expand his sound to
include electric instruments and rich, lush textures, he was firmly exploring
the former style when several of his lo-fi recordings caught the ear of
Jonathan Poneman, co-owner of Sub Pop Records. The songs had been recorded in
Beam's bedroom without the aid of studio flourishes, but Poneman nevertheless
requested that additional material be sent to the label for submission, and
Beam responded by sending two CDs in the mail -- both of them full-length
albums. Poneman considered releasing them both, but instead slimmed down the set
to 12 songs and released it in September 2002 as The Creek Drank the
Cradle. The similarly themed The Sea & the Rhythm
EP followed in 2003.
It was Beam's 2004 full-length Our Endless Numbered Days that signaled his arrival on the indie pop scene. Recorded in Chicago with producer Brian Deck, the album was resolutely hi-fi, but the addition of a full band only illuminated Beam's deft lyricism and intimate vocal delivery, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year. Late 2004 found the newly marketable Iron & Wine popping up on television commercials and movie soundtracks (In Good Company, Garden State), culminating in a busy 2005 that saw Beam release two EPs, the lush Woman King and In the Reins, a collaboration with Arizona spaghetti Western aficionados Calexico. The politically charged Shepherd's Dog, Beam and company's most diverse -- and most listenable -- record to date, was released in 2007. A two-disc collection of B-sides, rarities, soundtrack inclusions, and discarded tracks from the Iron & Wine archives called Around the Well arrived in early 2009. Kiss Each Other Clean, Iron & Wine's first collection of new music in nearly three years and one that found Beam further expanding the group's sound, was released in January 2011 by their new label, Warner Bros. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi
It was Beam's 2004 full-length Our Endless Numbered Days that signaled his arrival on the indie pop scene. Recorded in Chicago with producer Brian Deck, the album was resolutely hi-fi, but the addition of a full band only illuminated Beam's deft lyricism and intimate vocal delivery, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year. Late 2004 found the newly marketable Iron & Wine popping up on television commercials and movie soundtracks (In Good Company, Garden State), culminating in a busy 2005 that saw Beam release two EPs, the lush Woman King and In the Reins, a collaboration with Arizona spaghetti Western aficionados Calexico. The politically charged Shepherd's Dog, Beam and company's most diverse -- and most listenable -- record to date, was released in 2007. A two-disc collection of B-sides, rarities, soundtrack inclusions, and discarded tracks from the Iron & Wine archives called Around the Well arrived in early 2009. Kiss Each Other Clean, Iron & Wine's first collection of new music in nearly three years and one that found Beam further expanding the group's sound, was released in January 2011 by their new label, Warner Bros. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi
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