Iron & Wine- The Shepherd's Dog Format:LP EARLE and his long-time band

EARLE and his long-time band the DUKES explore the historical role of coal in rural communities

with a higher clarity than some of their raw studio recordings

Tetrachromacy

Stefflon Don & Abra Cadabra)

and the hilarious Pirates Of The Caribbean acid trip "Pirate's Life"

Iron & Wine- The Shepherd's Dog Format:LP EARLE and his long-time bandLabel: Sub Pop Released 2007 Iron 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