Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-12-05 General Tire closed the factory

General Tire closed the factory in 1982

and the music

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The title track

Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-12-05 General Tire closed the factoryIron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative in the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's Woman King, a 6 song EP which distinguished itself from it's predecessors with a deepening integration of spiraling, dense opuses with intimate confessionals. On the Shepherd's Dog this integration is complete. Sam Beam has confessed to finding spiritual