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Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Song Exploder

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Song Exploder is where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. In this episode, Sam Beam looks back at the making of his song Flightless Bird American Mouth from his 2007 album, The Shepherd's Dog. Coming up, you'll hear the original demo he recorded, and how that transformed into the final version of the song.

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