Blog: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream

It's a story that's as old as record companies. Singer-songwriter is unknown. Singer-songwriter finally makes it. Singer-songwriter becomes huge. Singer-songwriter releases backlog of unreleased and out-of-print tracks-the masses go crazy for it. But here's the part with which I have the most trouble: isn't there a reason why these tracks were unreleased and out-of-print? Shouldn't we expect and want the artist to have some discretion about what we, the listener, hear from them? Instead, we go googly-eyed and begin drooling over every little Sufjan scrap or Iron & Wine iota or Death Cab diatribe (for the sake of alliteration). [...]

• Iron & Wine - Belated Promise Ring
• Iron & Wine - Loud As Hope