Iron & Wine And Ben Bridwell Announce Covers Album
By Andy Kahn Apr 2, 2015 • 9:00 am PDT
Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses have announced a collaborative covers album, Sing Into My Mouth. The album, which does not yet have a release date, will be jointly issued through Beam’s Black Cricket record label as well as Bridwell’s Brown Records (via Caroline). The longtime friends recorded the 12 cover songs that comprise Sing Into My Mouth at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina.
[Photo by Charles Peterson]
The album includes covers ranging from Talking Heads (who inspired the album’s title) to Sade to Pete Seeger and includes takes on songs by Ronnie Lane, Bonnie Raitt, John Cale, JJ Cale, El Perro del Mar, Spiritualized, Them Two, Marshall Tucker Band and Unicorn.
“As excited as I was at the prospect of finally working together, I was unsure of the possibility of us both finding the time,” said Bridwell. “Luckily for me, Sam was persistent with the idea of recording some of our favorite tunes that we’d always wanted to cover. This is truly a ‘full circle’ moment for me… I’ve always wanted us to sing together and finally I have that dream realized. I couldn’t be more excited to continue this project at the upcoming shows to take it even further while playing some of our original songs together.”
“Ben and I started our careers together and had been threatening to work with one another for years,” said Beam. “When we finally conceived of the covers project and carved out some time, it was nostalgic and fun from top to bottom–the process of picking the songs to cover was really reminiscent of more than 15 years ago when we used to mail each other cassettes and CDs of music we were into–and the end of every recording day found us cutting up with friends the way we used to when we’d cross paths in South Carolina. He’s always been one of the funniest people I know.”
Currently, Beam and Bridwell are scheduled to perform together at the Newport Folk Festival July 24, at the MoPop Festival in Detroit July 25 and at Osheaga in Montreal July 31. More joint performances are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Sing Into My Mouth Tracklist (with original artist):
1 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads)
2 Done This One Before (Ronnie Lane)
3 Any Day Woman (Bonnie Raitt)
4 You Know Me More Than I Know (John Cale)
5 Bulletproof Soul (Sade)
6 There’s No Way Out of Here (Unicorn)
7 God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get) (El Perro del Mar)
8 The Straight and Narrow (Spiritualized)
9 Magnolia (JJ Cale)
10 Am I a Good Man? (Them Two)
11 Ab’s Song (Marshall Tucker Band)
12 Coyote, My Little Brother (Pete Seeger)
The album includes covers ranging from Talking Heads (who inspired the album’s title) to Sade to Pete Seeger and includes takes on songs by Ronnie Lane, Bonnie Raitt, John Cale, JJ Cale, El Perro del Mar, Spiritualized, Them Two, Marshall Tucker Band and Unicorn.
“As excited as I was at the prospect of finally working together, I was unsure of the possibility of us both finding the time,” said Bridwell. “Luckily for me, Sam was persistent with the idea of recording some of our favorite tunes that we’d always wanted to cover. This is truly a ‘full circle’ moment for me… I’ve always wanted us to sing together and finally I have that dream realized. I couldn’t be more excited to continue this project at the upcoming shows to take it even further while playing some of our original songs together.”
“Ben and I started our careers together and had been threatening to work with one another for years,” said Beam. “When we finally conceived of the covers project and carved out some time, it was nostalgic and fun from top to bottom–the process of picking the songs to cover was really reminiscent of more than 15 years ago when we used to mail each other cassettes and CDs of music we were into–and the end of every recording day found us cutting up with friends the way we used to when we’d cross paths in South Carolina. He’s always been one of the funniest people I know.”
Currently, Beam and Bridwell are scheduled to perform together at the Newport Folk Festival July 24, at the MoPop Festival in Detroit July 25 and at Osheaga in Montreal July 31. More joint performances are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Sing Into My Mouth Tracklist (with original artist):
1 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads)
2 Done This One Before (Ronnie Lane)
3 Any Day Woman (Bonnie Raitt)
4 You Know Me More Than I Know (John Cale)
5 Bulletproof Soul (Sade)
6 There’s No Way Out of Here (Unicorn)
7 God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get) (El Perro del Mar)
8 The Straight and Narrow (Spiritualized)
9 Magnolia (JJ Cale)
10 Am I a Good Man? (Them Two)
11 Ab’s Song (Marshall Tucker Band)
12 Coyote, My Little Brother (Pete Seeger)
