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July 26, 2007

Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog Cover

Sam Beam's latest is a brilliant collection of muddy ambiance and earthen largess, so the album cover floating around the net seemed to fit, sorta; a little less-than-stellar, but hey it looked woodsy and Beam's got beard, so whatever. Turns out that was all a sham, perpetrated by some avid, amateur, Iron-inspired artiste. The real album art, well, that titular canine's the star of the show...

Graphic designers, analyze it over the album's stellar first single.

Iron & Wine - "Boy With A Coin" (MP3)

The Shepherd's Dog is out this September via Sub Pop.

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oo i think its awesome. im not like a huge follower of his, but its good to see him change it up a bit. the colors are beautiful and seems like itll add a fantastic twist to the way the new stuff sounds

Posted by: ben at 07/26/07 12:49 PM | Reply
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oo i think its awesome. im not like a huge follower of his, but its good to see him change it up a bit. the colors are beautiful and seems like itll add a fantastic twist to the way the new stuff sounds

Posted by: ben at 07/26/07 12:52 PM | Reply
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Is it sad that I like the cover more than the album itself? The only problem I have with the cover is some parts look sloppy for the sake of being sloppy, which isn't cool.

Posted by: Evan at 07/26/07 1:12 PM | Reply
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my dog died of cancer last year

Posted by: Ben at 07/26/07 1:58 PM | Reply
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This is a lot more interesting than the last one I'd seen.

Posted by: ginny at 07/26/07 2:09 PM | Reply
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jesus, you got to warn people about these things. its sweet though. i'm assuming it's the same artist that did In the Reigns?..

Posted by: christian at 07/26/07 2:10 PM | Reply
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sam rules, one of my dog's died of heart disease this year

Posted by: matt at 07/26/07 2:35 PM | Reply
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I'm really looking forward to this one, and I do believe the artist for the cover of "In The Reins" did this as well. Similar feel.

Posted by: Dw Dunphy at 07/26/07 2:52 PM | Reply
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Michael Vick would love this cover

Posted by: boy w/ coin at 07/26/07 3:02 PM | Reply
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Michael Vick would love these dead dog story comments.

Posted by: Urgh at 07/26/07 3:07 PM | Reply
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This is scary

Posted by: dannygutters at 07/26/07 4:21 PM | Reply
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I actually liked the fake "woodsy" cover better.

Posted by: James at 07/26/07 4:28 PM | Reply
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the painting is by sam.

Posted by: butter at 07/26/07 5:29 PM | Reply
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I think it's great. I have a hard time pictureing it along side Sam's music though. But I haven't heard the new album yet.

Posted by: Zayin_451 at 07/26/07 10:00 PM | Reply
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Arggh! I hate everything except for the Arcade Fire.

Posted by: Evan at 07/27/07 1:06 AM | Reply
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My cat died two days ago.

Posted by: KingHarvest at 07/27/07 7:54 AM | Reply
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The artwork is great, but I got yo say I love the choice of typeface.

Posted by: juan at 07/28/07 7:02 AM | Reply
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Kinda scary, especially considering that my dog died last year when his parachute failed to open. :-(

Posted by: Jason Robots at 07/28/07 3:02 PM | Reply
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thats funny. I came online to find out the artist of the album cover, to find it out was by sam makes it 1000x times better! And from my graphic designer pov, the font is super, not too dominating, and nice choice of colors to attract attention. figure ground is nice as well..blah blah blah.

Posted by: heather at 10/11/07 3:23 PM | Reply
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