Name: Around The Well
Brand: Iron and Wine

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP808

Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

98787080810

Total Cap

3 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SPCD808

2009-05-18

98787080827

2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Iron and Wine

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Sub Pop

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

collecting songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released, around the well spans iron and wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's 'the creek drank the cradle') through material recorded for 2007's 'the shepherd's dog'. the double-disc 'around the well' collection is broken up into two sections. the first half is an assortment of hushed home recordings, unedited and raw, and the second highlights moments captured in the confines of proper studios with the help of other musicians, friends and engineers. the album's title comes from a line in the song 'the trapeze swinger,' a fan favourite which was written for and included in the movie 'in good company'. three more songs written and recorded for the film finally make their appearance here as well: 'belated promise ring,' 'god made the automobile' and 'homeward, these shoes.' 'around the well' also brings together hard-to-find covers such as the flaming lips' 'waitin' for a superman' and new order's 'love vigilantes,' along with one of iron and wine's earliest originals, 'sacred vision.' on sub pop.

Around The Well

Music GB