{"podcast":{"title":"Song Exploder","slug":"song-exploder-390830","podcast_index_feed_id":390830,"rss_url":"https://feed.songexploder.net/SongExploder","website_url":"http://www.songexploder.net","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/song-exploder/images/3b97a9c5-fef1-4c84-8038-3c6efa808016/songexploder-logo-2025-with-title.jpg","author":"Hrishikesh Hirway (Maggie.Gourville@prx.org)","episode_count":372,"summary":"Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:00.468054+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830"},"episode":{"title":"Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth","slug":"iron-wine-flightless-bird-american-mouth","published_at":"2026-02-18T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/iron-wine-flightless-bird-american-mouth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_93_d5c1d93d-744f-46cf-bfa6-9bdc6c130b4e&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dovetail.prxu.org/_/93/d5c1d93d-744f-46cf-bfa6-9bdc6c130b4e/SongExploder243-IronAndWine-Reissue-Part1.mp3","summary":"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 .","meta_description":"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 Mout…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1737,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/song-exploder-390830/episodes/iron-wine-flightless-bird-american-mouth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/iron-wine-flightless-bird-american-mouth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}