# Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth

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Podcast: [Song Exploder](https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830)
Published: 2026-02-18T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_93_d5c1d93d-744f-46cf-bfa6-9bdc6c130b4e&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder
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## Resource

This week, I wanted to go back and revisit the episode that I made with Iron & Wine in the fall of 2022 about the song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth." And there are a couple of reasons. One, there’s a new Iron & Wine album that’s coming out this month, called Hen’s Teeth . And secondly, I actually have a song of my own that’s coming out today, the same day as this episode, and it features Iron & Wine on the track. It’s called “Stray Dogs,” and it’s the first song from an album that I’m releasing in April, called In The Last Hour of Light . And this Iron & Wine episode of the podcast is what actually led to our collaboration on the song. I’d been a huge fan of Iron & Wine for two decades, and this live taping, which happened in Wimberly, Texas, at the Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio, was the first time that I got to meet Sam Beam from Iron & Wine So before we go back and listen to the episode itself, I thought it could be nice to talk to Sam about how this episode happened, and then how that led to the making of “Stray Dogs.” For more, visit songexploder.net/iron-and-wine .

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