Iron & Wine: "Yellow Jacket"
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Iron & Wine performs “Yellow Jacket,” a song with an “off-kilter melody” and “orchestral feel.”
Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) performs “Yellow Jacket,” a song Beam describes as having an “off-kilter melody” and “orchestral feel.” Iron & Wine’s onstage collaborators Manual Cinema create stunning visuals behind the band’s performance, flying us up from fields of butterflies to a starlit sky to the aurora borealis.
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Iron & Wine: "Yellow Jacket"
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) performs “Yellow Jacket,” a song Beam describes as having an “off-kilter melody” and “orchestral feel.” Iron & Wine’s onstage collaborators Manual Cinema create stunning visuals behind the band’s performance, flying us up from fields of butterflies to a starlit sky to the aurora borealis.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Doves are losing lucky feathers in the sky ♪ ♪ Appaloosas in the moonlight going blind ♪ ♪ What a cold world ♪ ♪ For such a long life ♪ ♪ Dogs are barking on the record every night ♪ [lighthearted indie music] ♪ A dream can close its tired eyes ♪ ♪ An old tear can roll itself away ♪ ♪ If that's all we lose tonight ♪ ♪ And the cold goes back in its bones ♪ ♪ Let those bells ring themselves true ♪ ♪ Your aurora borealis turning green ♪ ♪ Stopped your motorcycle with a tree ♪ ♪ What's a cold world to butterfly wings ♪ ♪ Get to know your yellow jacket by the sting ♪ ♪ Dreams close their tired eyes ♪ ♪ Old tears roll themselves away ♪ ♪ If that's all we lose tonight ♪ ♪ And the cold goes back in its bones ♪ ♪ Let those bells ring themselves true ♪ ♪ True ♪ ♪ True ♪ ♪ True ♪ ♪ [light hearted indie music fades]
Iron & Wine: “All in Good Time”
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Clip: 2/6/2025 | 4m 22s | Singer-songwriter Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) performs his Grammy-nominated song “All in Good Time.” (4m 22s)
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Clip: 2/6/2025 | 4m 8s | Iron & Wine performs the song “Anyone’s Game,” a playful homage to Serbian poet Vasko Popa. (4m 8s)
Iron & Wine: "Call It Dreaming"
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Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 50s | Iron & Wine plays “Call It Dreaming” with a band and the shadow puppet collective Manuel Cinema. (3m 50s)
Iron & Wine: “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
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Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 25s | Iron & Wine performs “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” with a band and the Manual Cinema collective. (3m 25s)
Iron & Wine: “Singers and the Endless Song”
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Clip: 2/6/2025 | 5m 13s | Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. (5m 13s)
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Preview: 2/6/2025 | 30s | Iron & Wine performs with a full band and shadow puppeteers from the collective Manual Cinema. (30s)
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