A few weeks ago I posted about the upcoming Iron & Wine rarities compilation due May 19 called Around The Well. Sub Pop has just released the first free and legal download from the album, and it’s “The Trapeze Swinger”. The song, which has become a popular live favorite over the past 4 or 5 years, was originally released on the soundtrack to the (deservedly) forgotten film In Good Company in 2004, and then later as a b-side to the “Such Great Heights“ single in 2006. Here though it gets its first release on a full length Iron & Wine set, ending the second disc with its gentle, hymn-like melody and Beam's dizzying surrealist poetry. It‘s worth it alone for the imagery of heaven’s “pearly gates” being covered in “eloquent graffiti” like “we’ll meet again” and “fuck the man” and “tell my mother not to worry”. “The Trapeze Swinger” is easily one of the finest songs in the Sam Beam catalog, and that’s some lofty praise when you think of all the great songs he’s penned since The Creek Drank The Cradle.
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MP3 :: The Trapeze Swinger (live)
(live from the Pabst Theatre, 2/8/07)
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