Iron & Wine Wins Award.

[Pat Marquez]

Sam Beam of Iron & Wine (http://www.ironandwine.com) has won a Plug Award for best Americana Album Of The Year with his "Our Endless Numbered Days" full-length. Check the replies for more information, including a definition of what exactly a "Plug Award" is.

[Pat Marquez]

From the web page of Sub-Pop:

What the heck is a Plug Award, you ask? Well, it's not the dirty kind you're thinking about, mister. A bit from the organization's website:

" PLUG is a collection of music lovers—writers, DJs, webmasters, artists, filmmakers, managers, indie retailers, and most importantly fans—who gather together each year to celebrate the artists who live and flourish in the margins.
The PLUG Independent Music Awards is about the independent community coming together to recognize its own and about the bands we all devote our lives and careers to champion. For us fans, it ain’t about the scans or the scrilla, it’s about the music. It’s about the artists who inspire and the music that disrupts the artistic and corporate mediocrity that dominates our culture."

Well, well, well! On another note, have you signed up for (aka purchased, listened to or checked out) Iron and Wine's new EP, Woman King yet? If not, might I humbly suggest that you click on the link below?

URL: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/discography.php?cat=true&display_type=discog_single&title=Woman%20King

[Rufio21]

about time he won something.. that guy is my idol..

[Booyah Achieved]

Everything Sam Beam makes is incredible..."Jezebel", off the Woman King EP is his best song to date

[Pat Marquez]

Do you have the album already? I went to Best Buy today and they had it. I know it was supposed to be out this tuesday, but for some reason they had it on the shelf.

But so far my favorite song of the album is the title track. I like the direction he is taking although I did enjoy the previous "low-fi" sound.

"Bird Stealing Bread" is truly an amazing song. I'd have to say that and "Sea And The Rhythm" are my two favorites.

[brian_midnight]

he should win an award for his beard

[January1979]

he should win an award for his beard

Love Sam's music. I admire solo artists more for their bravery, than the bands who try to create a sense of bravery In an attempt to sound different. [which more than likely, they die trying to succeed.]

But Goddamn, I wish I could grow a beard like that.

[letters_numbers]

look for the video for naked as we came off "our endless numbered days" its one of the best music videos i've seen