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- “The Trapeze Swinger”
- “Flightless Chicken, American Mouth”
- “Thomas County Regulation”
- “Muddy Hymnal”
In each musician’s profession, there are the songs that stand out among the many relaxation. Maybe it is a music that modified every little thing for them, the music they grew to like or the music that was the toughest to put in writing.
These are the songs we need to be taught extra about on a World Cafe function referred to as Backtracking. The premise is straightforward: We give artists an extended checklist of prompts they’ll select from. Then, they appear again by way of their catalog and decide the music that matches finest. They’ inform us the tales behind them and carry out them stay.
In our newest installment, Iron & Wine‘s Sam Beam joins us to speak about how his profession modified after his music “Flightless Chicken, American Mouth” was featured within the 2008 movie Twilight.
He’ll get into different songs too, together with “Thomas County Regulation,” which sees him revisiting his small-town previous. Plus, Iron & Wine carry out in entrance a stay viewers for World Cafe.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.


