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In 2002, Sam Beam\\u2019s first album as Iron & Wine was released on Sub Pop Records. He\\u2019d given them a bunch of demos, and rather than have him re-record these songs, they released the demos themselves. Since then, he\\u2019s put out five more full-length albums and been nominated for multiple Grammys.

For this episode, Sam looked back at the making of his song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth," from his 2007 album The Shepherd\\u2019s Dog. A year after that album came out, the song was used prominently in a scene in the movie Twilight, and it\\u2019s been one of the most popular Iron & Wine songs ever since. I talked to Sam at Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio in Wimberley, Texas, in front of a small audience. You\\u2019ll hear the original demo he recorded, and how that transformed into the final version of the song.

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