the
IRON & WINE
illustrated DISCOGRAPHY in chronological order,
and alphabetical songlist (scroll down) ...

Please send if you have any corrections or additional information.
Thank you!

created January 21-24, 2005 by Ger Potze & Leo Meijer
online since January 21, 2005
last updated on May 26, 2008

Scroll down through this page for:
- Various artists compilations including exclusive Iron & Wine tracks and other exclusive appearances;
- The Iron & Wine songlist (compiled with the help of the folks at the I&W forum);
- Links.

Sub Pop Singles Club

1. Call Your Boys
2. Dearest Forsaken

Limited edition of 1,000 copies on clear vinyl.

The Creek Drank The Cradle

1. Lion's Mane
2. Bird Stealing Bread
3. Faded From The Winter
4. Promising Light
5. The Rooster Moans
6. Upward Over The Mountain
7. Southern Anthem
8. An Angry Blade
9. Weary Memory
10. Promise What You Will
11. Muddy Hymnal

    the LP comes with a bonus 7" vinyl single
    including two tracks not on the CD:

12. Her Tea Leaves
13. Carissa's Wierd

The promo CD for this album was released in a cardboard sleeve with completely different artwork.

Tour EP

1. Sea And The Rhythm
2. Jesus The Mexican Boy
3. Red Dust
4. Someday The Waves
5. Overhead
6. Dead Man's Will

Very limited edition hand labeled, CD-R formatted tour only EP, sold during the 2002 Summer tour.

Tracks 3 & 5 are otherwise unavailable so far ...

The Sea & the Rhythm

1. Beneath The Balcony
2. The Sea And The Rhythm
3. The Night Descending
4. Jesus The Mexican Boy
5. Someday The Waves

Five songs recorded in Sam Beam's bedroom from the 2002 "The Creek Drank the Cradle" sessions.

Our Endless Numbered Days

1. On Your Wings
2. Naked As We Came
3. Cinder And Smoke
4. Sunset Soon Forgotten
5. Teeth In The Grass
6. Love And Some Verses
7. Radio War
8. Each Coming Night
9. Free Until They Cut Me Down
10. Fever Dream
11. Sodom, South Georgia
12. Passing Afternoon
13. Belated Promise Ring (Japanese CD only)
14. Homeward, These Shoes (Japanese CD only)

    Limited edition copies of the LP came with a bonus 7" vinyl single
    including two tracks not on the album:

15. Sinning Hands
16. No Moon

    Limited edition copies of the (Sub Pop) CD came with a bonus CD-single
    including four tracks not on the album:

17. Cinder And Smoke (demo)
18. Swans And The Swimming
19. Free Until They Cut Me Down (demo)
20. Hickory

Also have a look at the artwork of the promo CD for this album.

iTunes Exclusive

1. No Moon
2. Sinning Hands
3. Friends They Are Jewels
4. Peng! 33 (Stereolab cover)

iTunes is offering an exclusive 4-song EP comprised of 2 b-sides from the recording sessions from Our Endless Numbered Days ("No Moon" and "Sinning Hands" - previously available only on a bonus 7" single included with the first vinyl pressing of Our Endless Numbered Days ), a Stereolab cover ("Peng!" - prev. available only on a compilation that came with the 2nd issue of the amazing arts and culture magazine Yeti), and a track from Sam's unreleased archives ("Friends They Are Jewels").

Passing Afternoon

1. Passing Afternoon
2. Communion Cups And Someone's Coat
3. Dearest Forsaken (live @ KCRW, December 6, 2002)
   

Track 1 from Our Endless Numbered Days.

Track 2 is a new one and was recorded in August of 2004. This track should keep you satisfied until the new Iron and Wine EP Woman King comes out February 22, 2005.

Track 3 previously available only on the Iron and Wine Sub Pop Singles Club 7 inch; here recorded live at KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic in Los Angeles.

Woman King

1. Woman King
2. Jezebel
3. Gray Stables
4. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
5. My Lady's House
6. Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)

Here's the artwork of the promo CD for this release.

Live Bonnaroo 11th June 2005

1. Sunset Soon Forgotten
2. Jezebel
3. Woman King
4. Free Until They Cut Me Down
5. Cinder And Smoke
6. Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)
7. Love And Some Verses
8. Bird Stealing Bread
9. Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young cover)
10. The Night Descending
11. Naked As We Came
12. Fever Dream
13. On Your Wings
14. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
15. Upward Over The Mountain
16. Teeth In The Grass
17. Southern Anthem
18. My Lady's House
19. The Trapeze Swinger

Recorded live at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, June 11, 2005.

This 'release' is available for purchase as MP3 or FLAC downloads only at the Live Bonnaroo website.

In The Reins - with Calexico

1. He Lays In The Reins
2. Prison on Route 41
3. History of Lovers
4. Red Dust
5. 16, Maybe Less
6. Burn That Broken Bed
7. Dead Man's Will
   
   Japanese version only bonustracks:
   
8. He Lays In The Reins (stripped-down live version)
9. A History Of Lovers (stripped-down live version)
10. Wild Horses (Rolling Stones cover) (live)
11. Prison On Route 41 (stripped-down live version)
12. All Tomorrow's Parties (Velvet Undergound cover) (live)
13. Burn That Broken Bed (stripped-down live version)

Tracks 8-10 were recorded on KEXP Radio Seattle on October 22, 2005.
Tracks 11-13 were recorded on KUD Radio Austin on October 31, 2005.

Also see the Touch And Go & Overcoat artwork for the original 7-track promotional CD.

Live Session EP (iTunes Exclusive)

1. Love Vigilantes (New Order)
2. Faded From The Winter
3. Sodom, South Georgia
4. The Trapeze Swinger (clean)
5. The Trapeze Swinger
6. Cinder And Smoke
7. Naked As We Came

Tracks 4 and 5 are the same, except for the F word that has just been blanked out on the 'clean' version!

Such Great Heights

1. Such Great Heights
2. Trapeze Swinger (live recording from Radio Vienna)
3. Naked As We Came (live recording from Radio Vienna)

Also issued as a 2-track promo CD (PRO103) including tracks 1 and 3.

Originally scheduled to be released June 30, 2006.

Live At Lollapalooza 2006 EP

1. Sinning Hands
2. Peace Beneath The City
3. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven (unlisted, comes together with track 2)
4. Jezebel

All tracks recorded live at the Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago, IL, August 4, 2006.

Boy With A Coin

1. Carried Home
2. Boy With A Coin
3. Kingdom Of Animals

Also issued as a promo CD (Sub Pop PROCD 115).

The Shepherd's Dog

1. Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
2. White Tooth Man
3. Lovesong Of The Buzzard
4. Carousel
5. House By The Sea
6. Innocent Bones
7. Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog)
8. Resurrection Fern
9. Boy With A Coin
10. The Devil Never Sleeps
11. Peace Beneath the City
12. Flightless Bird, American Mouth

    Limited edition copies (pre-order only?) of both the Sub Pop LP and CD came with a bonus CD-single
    including two tracks not on the album:

13. Arms Of A Thief
14. Serpent Charmer

The LP version of this album comes with a download code for the MP3's of these songs.

A promo CD for this album has been issued in a cardboard sleeve with completely different artwork.

Lovesong Of The Buzzard

1. Lovesong Of The Buzzard
2. Arms Of A Thief
3. Serpent Charmer

Also to be available through iTunes.

Various Artists - Yeti compilation One

Dead Man's Will

Various artists compilation CD that came with art magazine/book "Yeti" issue #1.

Various Artists - Sound Collector 8
the pink/bearded man issue

Sacred Vision

Various artists compilation CD that came with magazine "Sound Collector" issue #8.

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

The Postal Service - Give Up - 2LP version

Such Great Heights (The Postal Service cover)

The Postal Service CD EP "Such Great Heights" includes "Such Great Heights" from their debut full-length "Give Up", as well as a song not found on the record ("There's Never Enough Time"), a cover of "Such Great Heights" by Iron and Wine, and a cover of "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Shins.

All these tracks (and more) have also been issued on the 2nd LP of the vinyl version of The Postal Service album "Give Up".
The original CD version (without the cover versions) was originally released on February 19, 2003.
The 2LP version has been released on November 9, 2004 on limited edition red vinyl.

Various Artists - Magic
Various Artists - This Shit Is Immortal (Bang)

The Past And Pending (a Shins song performed by James Mercer of The Shins,
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, and Rosie Thomas)

Various artists CD compilation that came with the April 2003 issue of French magazine "Magic".

Also released on the various artists compilation CD "This Shit Is Immortal" that came with issue #2, the May 2003 issue of UK magazine "Bang". The CD was only available with the magazine when purchased in the UK.

Various Artists - Yeti compilation Two

Peng! 33 (Stereolab cover)

Waitin' For A Superman (Flaming Lips cover)

Various artists compilation CD that came with art magazine/book "Yeti" issue #2.

"Peng! 33" has also been released on the Rough Trade/Mute various artists compilation CD "Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 2003" in February 2004 and on the "iTunes Exclusive" download only EP in June 2004.

Carissa's Wierd - Scrap Book
rare and unreleased originals and covers 1996-2003

Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover by Carissa's Wierd w/ Sam Beam of Iron & Wine)

A rarities CD available only at the last few gigs Carissa's Wierd played when they were splitting up.

Rosie Thomas - Only With Laughter Can You Win

Various Artists - Patient Zero

Red Rover (by Rosie Thomas with Sam Beam)

Sam Beam of Iron & Wine joins Rosie Thomas on "Red Rover," a result of their Winter/Spring 2003 tour with James Mercer of the Shins.

The Six Parts Seven - Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs

Sleeping Diagonally (re.made by Sam Beam of Iron & Wine)

The original instrumental (!) version of this track appears on The Six Parts Seven's album "Things Shaped In Passing" from March 2002.

Various Artists - Sweetheart: Love Songs
our favorite artists sing their favorite love songs

Ab's Song (Marshall Tucker Band cover)

Starbucks Valentine's Day compilation CD.

Love is the answer.
We asked our favorite artists to perform their favorite love songs for this special compilation. Some of the most distinctive and memorable vocalists and musicians in music today took us up on our request to bring you this romantic bouquet of classic lovesong balladry. Filled with timeless songs to fall in love with and to fall in love to, we were surprised and delighted at what they chose. We hope you agree that each has transformed these lovesongs into highest form of art: the art of love.
(Taken from the Starbucks website, listen to the songs or order -US & Canada only- the CD there).

Various Artists - Ladies & Gentlemen

Morning

Various artists 12" vinyl single compilation that came with issue #1 of "Ladies & Gentlemen" magazine.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies.

Various Artists - Connect
Rarities Sampler Volume 1

Loud As Hope

Various Artists - Hope Isn't A Word - Comes with a Smile Vol. 11

Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf cover, recorded live at The Borderline, London, May 19, 2004)

Various artists compilation CD that came with magazine "Comes With A Smile" issue #15.

The Shins - Fighting In A Sack

New Slang (a Shins song performed live by James Mercer of The Shins w/ Sam Beam of Iron & Wine)

Various Artists - I Am A Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass
A Tribute To The Music Of Will Oldham

We All, Us Three, Will Ride (Will Oldham cover)

Originally released as a limited edition tribute double CD of 500 copies. Out of print.
Free with all pre-orders of this tribute came the CD-R "A Formal Apology" (TR024),
which contains a cover version of "Muddy Hymnal" by Racingpaperplanes.

This tribute has been rereleased as a single CD on January 31, 2006.
It has a few new contributions, some were deleted, but Iron & Wine's performance is still on the disc.

Various Artists - Sounds Eclectic 3

Waitin' For A Superman (Flaming Lips cover recorded live in session
for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, December 6, 2002)

Originally only available with a KCRW Membership ($25 and up).
Street Release Date: January 11, 2005.

Various Artists - In Good Company
Original Soundtrack

The Trapeze Swinger

This soundtrack also contains the Iron & Wine songs "Sunset Soon Forgotten" and "Naked as We Came", both taken from the "Our Endless Numbered Days" album.

Various Artists - Yeti compilation Three

John's Glass Eye

"An early home-recorded song from the magnaminous Sam Beam, our only friend whose beard looks good."

Various artists compilation CD that came with art magazine/book "Yeti" issue #3.

Various Artists - Acquired Taste

Southern Anthem

Naked as We Came

Various Artists - I'm Not There
Original Soundtrack

Dark Eyes (w/ Calexico) (Bob Dylan cover)

"33 Bob Dylan songs reinterpreted by some of music's most acclaimed voices."

Various Artists - Yeti compilation Five

Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog) (live)

"This song was recorded on October 29, 2007 at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Extra thanks to Sam, AJ and Howard Greynolds for this version, which differs quite a bit from the recorded one."

Various artists compilation CD that came with art magazine/book "Yeti" issue #5.