Iron and Wine - Grace for Saints and Ramblers

[@arginsky]

I love all the musical evolutions over the past few years. It's hard to let go of the sweetness and innocence and stripped down sound of the early years, but I love when artists move through their world and change. Thanks Mr. Beam & co.

[@Aphexslim]

Who the hell comes on to an Iron and Wine video to bash Sam's beautiful song writing? Are you serious? My God just listen to the beautiful music. Sam Beam is a very accomplished musician, and he is ALLOWED to say whatever the hell he wants. And in all honesty, if you this is bad have you EVER listened to any top 40 music? Even if Sams grammar isn't "perfect" at least everything he's writing is poetic and beautiful. If you have the intelligence to appreciate it. I will say no more. Good day sir.

[@mhtate]

So glad to hear horns in this. The large band for the Kiss Each Other Clean tour was so fantastic. Love the fact that you never quite know what you're going to see when you see Iron & Wine live.

[@NearlyWitches1]

reminds me of sukie in the graveyard by belle and sebastian, both good jams

[@pinbxll]

I woke up with this song playing in my head. Don’t know where it came from don’t know where i heard it but I’m glad i did

[@Stuie299]

Twee Pop Iron & Wine, I can definitely get into this.

[@epicrapbattlesofherstory]

You know, I started listening to Iron and Wine for the nice, authentic folk-rock he was so great at, but then The Shepherd's Dog really hooked me, and I've enjoyed Kiss Each Other Clean and Ghost and Ghost just as much as I liked Creek Drank the Cradle, Passing Afternoon, etc. He's such a talented musician, and if he can do songs that lean more towards jazz and rock, then I say go for it. Why limit himself when he has so much potential?

[@FURF0XSAKE]

Tyler Clark I didn't like Kiss Each Other Clean much; I much preferred the natural sound of his other albums.

[@virgobro2025]

Listening since the third album, I actually love these new album's.

[@scrantjokester]

❤️❤️m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYq4h3xmaKqip8U

[@thegoatinanutshell9440]

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss serotonin

[@thebecoming09]

I don't care if it's not correct, I still love it. If you want to ruin good music for yourself because of one word, you are free to do so, and I'm very sorry for your loss.

[@ayana074]

hes a beautiful human being. enough said

[@PJ-nk7hf]

Great track! How the hell is he going to remember all the lyrics when singing live. Whew!!

[@marjorieledin6581]

Love iron & wine

[@seansampson7886]

This song has been on KZbin for 5 hours, meaning I've listened to it about 70 times...Sounds about right.

[@nitishnarula19]

Fantastic stuff! I think this sound (and Kiss Each Other Clean) is something Sam Beam wanted to experiment years ago when Creek Drank the Cradle came out. I may be wrong, but it feels like an expected evolution of Iron and Wine.

[@nikhilvenkatesa]

When I look at Sam Beam, I imagine a deep bass voice crooning away slowly. Talk about subverting expectation :)

[@TheCaliforniaokie]

This is so belle and sebastian, and I love it.

[@Swingfinger]

and this song has actually grown on me quite a bit :)

[@TheCaliforniaokie]

amen!

[@SeanpHartigan]

Its nice to change things up!

[@thelastremark777]

A lot of people are hating it, but I really like the new stuff. Although it's a change from the way Iron and Wine used to be, it's still very good.

[@gustavodedeus4823]

Brilliant 🇧🇷🎸👏

[@kcdunkley1]

...luv it ...and we just got our tickets for show at the Beacon!!!

[@StableGenius42]

Never fails to disappoint? do you mean never fails to please, or maybe never disapoints?

[@davidgerard4369]

Sam, I hope you can appreciate this - but when I first heard this tune off of your album, I thought to myself: "Cool.....Iron and Wine pays homage to Haircut 100!" I can totally picture Nick Heyward singing this.

[@camdowell91]

I'm diggin the busyness of this song.

[@williamhayman9851]

This offering has a hypnotic pleasure.....

[@bvon91]

Thank you, Sam.

[@scrantjokester]

❤️❤️

[@brendaleonard4215]

He is amazing!

[@AnastasiaHarding]

Yessss! This made my day!!

[@kitegirluk]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New amazing Iron and Wine. Roll on April. Can't wait for the album. This is totally and completely and utterly ACE! :)

[@mouniabarakat912]

it reminds me of 60s music ......

[@geoffgc]

Perfect.

[@trugangsta4real]

Love his first album and love this too.

[@BUrffer17]

Seriously, this is fucking genius. I feel like a douche using this word, but everything about this song is exemplary. Strong, interesting arrangements and melody, cool rhythm section complimented well by a groovy bassline, and strong lyrics sung with appropriate intonation and emotion.

[@michaelskurski912]

Sounds like a song Glen tilbrook and Chris defford would do

[@zsantschi]

Sounds like Sam has been listening to some Belle and Sebastian... That's a good thing!

[@Linkino338]

Un groupe qui a de l'avenir!;-) continuez!

[@darrendouglas8692]

Beautiful version of a great song. I love it!

[@NicholasAlahverdian]

sounds like they've been listening to belle & sebastian.

[@pjh2331]

yeah I hear you man loud and clear. I was at the Troubadour in Los Angeles when he played "Tree by the River". And I was blown away. You can still find the youtube video up of the performance I believe (May 2009). And then I heard the album and was like, "meh..." but, using a quote i recently heard, the bus makes many stops, no guarantee you'll like them all....

[@scrantjokester]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@horse5407]

When did this come out? Heard it on the radio the other day and I see comments from 8 years ago?

[@MCCULLEYful]

Belle and Sebastion

[@peterjenkins2535]

the one thing you can expect from Sam Beam is that whatever new thing he creates it will be just that, new....Because he is a truly creative artist...He's not gonna do something he's already done...I love it

[@icelessapplemug]

Interesting & unexpected. Can't wait to hear the whole album!

[@jacksonthomson]

I can't imagine playing the same depressing shit for 10+ years... Iron and Wine has grown to finally become a BAND. Haters will hate though... Me likey

[@StrappleberryKush]

very very catchy ^_^

[@DJOXTOKS]

Oh my goodness, 10 points to you!

[@robinsonkirby]

it feels like a 1970's TV show theme song

[@SimplyRandom123]

wow this was great, so excited to hear new music from y'all

[@Snowking587]

Well done SAM

[@Kelly-ei3ct]

Sam is amazing .

[@Heterokid]

"I" is the first person nominative (generally what we'd call subject). "Me" is first person accusative (generally called object). If you'll notice, Shakespeare ALSO said 'thou' 'thee' 'thy' and 'thine' which is all covered using you, you, your, and yours respectively. I'm sure Shakespeare would have a fit if he heard you say "I will give this to YOU" instead of "thee". Languages are constantly undergoing change, and first person is changing now much as second person did earlier.

[@manutdtreble7]

"Upward Over The Mountain" and definitely check out his album The Creek Drank The Cradle.

[@chrisc2057]

Sam please make an acoustic solo album. Your music is amazing and sounds best acoustic.

[@shawndenali4244]

He grew up in the south like me and if you're different like being atheist in the bible belt you're an outcast but I am Christian and I'm open minded love this song I'm not trying to change anyone's views just respect mine and I will you

[@BUrffer17]

I'm working on two straight hours right now, can't say I blame you.

[@tonywords6713]

reminds me of Ballad of John and Yoko

[@OllieMarriage]

Sam Beam has done something amazing with Ghost on Ghost. No longer a soulful poet playing with an 8 track, a guitar and his voice in his garage. This album has a 12 piece band!!! Think you know his style and then BOOM! French Horns!!

[@scrantjokester]

❤️☺️ m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGqrmauHrZaVnKM

[@jwelsh8]

Row B!

[@zantetz11]

What if the lyric isn't "it all came down to you and I" but rather "It all came down to 'You and I'" this is how I had interpreted it not it all came down to the two of us but it all came down to (you saying) "You and I"

[@manutdtreble7]

check earliest releases

[@ironpig3834]

Please release a single of caught in the briars acoustic. I prefer your old stuff.

[@jordangagnon2099]

Does this sound like the theme song to an old show to anyone else?

[@c4hI0fo2p]

Little harsh...but well put. He has completly changed his sounds. One would think that he would do another band or side project with this jazz "stuff". The other song "Lovers Revolution" that has been posted had a great beginning, but lost it with all the damn brass and jazz elements that came in.

[@patrickmcdaniel9403]

You are quite right sir, and am embarrassed. Let's try again: Sam and the gang Never fail to Please. Not to mention live performances...can't wait for the tour!

[@pjh2331]

i hear you.....but this sounds very much like the last album. all of us here got on board for the great, fingerpicking, acoustic stuff. But i don't blame him for not making the same album over and over, you know?

[@mtailgator]

It drastically varied from Kiss Each Other Clean.

[@cincylaw14]

Iron and Effing Wine!

[@TessaCoker]

Sorry, I am English (not Norwegian, although my husband is from Norwegian ancestry...). I am a bit pedantic about the English language. Shakespeare often got it wrong (poetic licence?). For example "Woe is me" is incorrect! All you have to do it turn the phrase around to check (Me is woe). In the above example just take out the word 'you' and it becomes "It all came down to I" which, of course, we would not say (corrected to "it all came down to me"). Keep on trolling, my friend!

[@SuperChampionRocker]

So many lyrics I'm surprised he didn't mention the Earth is flat.

[@brandonpeterson733]

Dude, the brass starts the song.

[@virgobro2025]

2:10 What is _that horn instrument_ called? I've always loved it but I don't know what it is.

[@yadda333]

Bari Sax (baritone saxophone is proper name) is definitely in there.

[@tonywords6713]

yadda333 yup you hear it on Low Light too

[@jackdesambrois7520]

Agreed: grown on me too. Initially thought that Lovers' Revolution was ten times better than this... Now it's hard to say...

[@Swingfinger]

Wasn't a gigantic fan of his last album either... I liked some of the more experimental aspects of it. I've always thought his melody and lyrics work best with very sparse accompaniment. All of this production just smothers what's great about his music instead of complimenting it... but like I said I do like that he's getting experimental and hopefully that leads to something I find more enjoyable. Sam is the man and I support him in all his artistic endeavors

[@c4hI0fo2p]

look, I understand what you mean, and everyone is entitled to their own preferances and what not. But this sir, is NOT the material that I fell in love with. I wish Sam well as always but i'll stay within my "bounderies" of the music that I love by him and keep to that. Heck I've already deleted most of the "Ghost on Ghost" album off my ipod already. To each his/her own.

[@drewd811]

Absolutely agreed. I went to a show in Atlanta for his last little tour after Kiss Each Other Clean, and not only had he not properly placed his new style under another moniker, but he FUCKING TOOK ALL OF MY FAVOURITE GODDAMN SONGS AND TURNED THEM INTO THIS SHIT. Who. Fucking. Does that? It infuriated me. Deeply. Sure, he has the right to do what he wants with his work. But those songs meant so much to me. I honestly would have thrown a tomato at his face if I would have had it with me.

[@larryrussel1577]

L.K. Oh, My! A criticizer who does NOT research before writing.. Took me 46 seconds to learn from two sources- the USA is ranked 22 & 26 in literacy worldwide! That phrase had NOTHING to do with being lyrical... The writer could have used..'To you and Me!" and not changed the song. Also, Sir/Miss Picky with no substance, I often use some 'Poetic License' in writing. Maybe use 'with me and you' to rhyme with 'True. (Yes, 'with me and you' is incorrect!) But repeating it 36 times is an insult!

[@SammyCee23]

What is the meaning of life?

[@nikhilvenkatesa]

Any song in particular?

[@drewd811]

And honestly, I'm not just a hater. I think anyone who loves the band and knows their past work well enough would have to honestly make the same conclusions.

[@michaelskurski912]

This songs sounds like squeeze

[@larryrussel1577]

Holli.. You is so write....! Thanks for the laugh! Bravo. (Except for using I for me.. or ending a sentence with the AT word!!!)

[@tulllguy]

I do agree; talk about repetitive crap.

[@Venusleaf]

Hmm not sure what you mean there. Tell me more.

[@chrisfranks1422]

this is what happens when a musician has time to develop.

[@michaelskurski912]

He sings like glen tilbrook it sounds like a song him and difford would do

[@Jacob32905]

Really big fan of Sam Beam and his song writing is always great but i just can't get into these new songs. But to each his own.

[@robertlarson552]

I disagree, I think the song is relatively infectious. There claps and sax are definitely outside of what we've heard from him before. I will concede a lack of intensity, but the song is upbeat and pretty "happy" sounding.

[@ShebbaRod]

It´s very different from what I was used... but I liket it...Though Lover´s Revolution is better.

[@SuburbanTurba]

this is cool but i kinda miss the old iron and wine

[@spookytook]

fkng same

[@vaskie13]

I wish he went back to his lo-fi stripped down style...

[@FraAngelico729]

The Alternate Side brought me here. /user/thealternateside907

[@benjaminashman1961]

Haha - give me your code! Every Starbucks I went to just had the stupid app download.

[@adaheemskerk]

Sukie was a kid, and she liked to hang out in the graveyard!

[@landlinesandpercolators8822]

Should we all go back and correct the grammar of the old blues guys? Or how about the double negative of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction?" Prince was a crappy speller! "You and I" is a better hook than "you and me" here. How many copy editors do you know making good music? Anyway, heard this on WFUV today and had to track it down. Glad they still make them like this.

[@elijahdrew6633]

I don't get the reference

[@nonsuchned94]

About the grammar. Have you considered that it's intentional? And your argument against it may actually mirror what is going on in the song? So the song is fun and catchy but you have a problem with the grammar. Basically, you're saying is that it all comes down to "you and I.' What if Sam/The subject of the song has the same sort of problem with the other person in the song? The use of the phrase becomes a double meaning. It refers both to their relationship AND maybe that although they have this history of fun and crazy times, they still have a problem when the other uses bad grammar like 'you and I."

[@florascent9ts]

#whydoyouhateproductionvalue Does anybody get that reference? No? Okay, I'll leave.

[@larryrussel1577]

Why are you defending an obvious mistake? Are you proud of being wrong? Answer one question.. Please.... Is ... "to you and I" correct? This is 5th grade English.. Yes...or.. No. Is it correct? Choose one... YES .. NO.

[@Swingfinger]

Can't say I'm a fan of his new direction.....

[@openminded81820]

Acoustic version is so much better, this is over produced and this is coming from a huge fan of Iron and Wine.

[@Hoop4LifeCCJ]

I got this from Starbucks and I love it.