Iron and Wine, Sept. 28, Tower Theatre

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Iron and Wine, Sept. 28, Tower Theatre

POSTED: Monday, October 1, 2007, 8:46 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

Photo | Kim Black

I said babe I can picture you bend as if wanting to bow as the curtain goes down.

Iron and Wine’s eight-piece band set up on stage to the sound of thunderous applause. It was the most enthusiastic response they would get out of the crowd until the traditional begging-for-an-encore cheering at the end. Once the first chord was played, the audience fell into an eerie silence, hypnotized by the soothing strumming and soft percussion of the band. The ambiance of the show felt more like a session in meditation than a rock show, with red-orange lighting that for any other band would feel tacky but here was a tastefully appropriate complement to the soothing music. And while Sam Beam’s whispery voice could as easily lull you to sleep as it could inspire you, he held the fans in captive attention through the entire set and the encore, “A History of Lovers” from the collaborative In the Reins EP with Calexico.

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