Iron and Wine Tickets

Very well rounded band. He had 12 musicians up there with him. A brass section that had coordinated dance moves and everything. Very fun!

This was my third time seeing Sam Beam, and not only was it the best iron & wine show I've seen, it was BY FAR the most incredible concert I've ever attended. The simplest way to put it was that it was magical. The location was perfect, the set list was perfect (he spent a lot of time on the good old stuff that got me hooked initially), he was perfect, the awkwardly gawky dancing brass players were perfect! I would go back to that concert every night if I could!

the only complaint was they didn't play my favorite song.. on the up side I love a ton more! The music was fantastic and I was not a huge fan before the concert. I liked them before... I LOVE them now. I will go to another show as soon as they are close again. :)

I have loved Iron & Wine for many years and was bouncing up and down with excitement the whole week before this show. I was so looking forward to the magic that fills your soul when Sam's voice and guitar fill the room. He is incredibly talented and in a place like the Ryman, I knew I was in for an epic evening. But my hopes died quickly when 12 person band took over the stage and bastardized some of my favorite songs with a rythym guitar and saxaphones and clarinets. What happened here? When did this incredible singer/song writer sell his talent to a Holiday Inn wedding band? Gone was the simple but perfect harmony of man and guitar, gone were the heart aching moments when the lyrics of his song are sang with such meaning and little distraction, gone was the magic. All replaced with cheesy jazz sounds and bad doowaps and yeah-yeahs from the backup singers. There was one small moment of dreamyness when Sam came back on stage for encore and did an amazing rendition of Trapeze Swinger. The crowd was so swept away that no one dared make a sound. You could have heard a pin drop during that song. Everyone hearts and eyes and breath glued to one man and one sound. How I had hoped to be through the whole concert. How I am when I listen to albums like Shepherds Dog and Woman King, how everyone felt when he was live at the Triple Door. Though the concert was a huge disappointment, the cost of my ticket was worth it for the 4 minutes of watching him sing that last song. On a more positive note, Jessica Hoop (the opening act) was charming and beautiful and amazingly talented.

Samuel Beam is the consummate performer. On top of the music I already thought was amazing, his stage presence and witty communication with the audience truly made my night.

The moment he took the stage and began talking I instantly knew this was going to be a great show. When he first started talking to the crowd, I leaned over to my wife and said "I love his voice". He was incredibly genuine in his addressing the crowd and then in his set selection. Being a "songwriter's songwriter" and playing in downtown Nashville which is know for its plethora of songwriters, Sam Beam felt like he was a professor at the head of a consortium with other learned academics. You could feel the passion, the attention to detail in every single word, as he was moving through his extensive playlist. He started with the band, who all seemed to carry the same stage presence and seemed to be having a blast, and then worked down to just him on the stage for the "Iron and Wine Buffet", during which he took requests from the crowd. He had a terrific sense of humor and seemed to be one of those artists that you would see having coffee after the show and you could sit and have a lengthy conversation with. He reintroduced the band to lead to the finale of the show. He played a great mix of old and new, and you really got a sense of the course of his career. He played one encore (which happened to be my favorite song) and ended the show just as humble and genuine as he began. I plan to see him again and again whenever he is near me on subsequent tours.

The sound was mixed so poorly that after leaving our seats to try out other areas of the venue and putting earplugs in to muffle the distortion we finally left. Sam sounded great for the few songs he did without the band, but again when they came on it was like smthing was horribly wrong at the sound board. Such a huge bummer. Many people ended up leaving after plugging their ears for a long as they could.

Sam Beam now insists upon touring with a full band, including horn section and back-up singers. Performs new arrangements of old songs with questionable results. Only did a handful of songs acoustically and seemed to mess up songs/forget lyrics frequently. Only one song at encore. I didn't get the impression Sam cares.

Iron & Wine was Sam Beam with twelve backup people: singers, people playing sax and violins and bass, etc. Part of the set was just Sam and his guitar, some included everyone; I liked the combination.

Iron & wine are spectacular live!!! Not to be missed.

The Fox as always is a good venue but this time around the sound levels were waaay off. The trumpets, sax, and backup singers drowned out the singer and the mic on him was way too low. In general was NOT happy because I came to see Iron & Wine, the soulful folk-influenced band and instead I got Dave Matthews Band for 80% of the performance. Only 3 songs in their original format were performed which led to the urge to get up and leave.

Was a great show, the interaction with the audience was great. It felt like a smaller more intimate venue and the music was great too!

It was so good that my brother passed out. And I mean that literally.

nasty ticket counter person - off to bad start 13 members in the band?! not expected - not sure if it was needed. sam couldn't remember his own songs - started a couple of times, then stopped, then tried again. no stage presence or energy. audience interaction strange. one woman was asleept in audience. probably better as a studio musician rather than live performer

good music, but sound could have been managed better... at least where we were, in the 2nd balcony, it was often too loud to really hear the music. It felt like the different instruments and vocalists were competing with each other, so we couldn't really hear and appreciate how they were fitting together. Too bad.

I started listening to Iron and Wine back in 2005 and loved the gritty, intimate sound of one man and his strings. Beautiful lyrics, angelic voice. Fast forward a few years to now, and you have a full band (13 people!) with full sound to go with it. Did Sam play any of his old favorites? Well, sort of....if you can call changing the key, tone and everything else but keeping the lyrics playing the oldies. Lets just say it was a challenge to even sing along once you recognized the song. Loved it, it was like getting a new album, and I hope they release a live version so I can listen again. Sam is an engaging performer with a sense of humor and connection to his audience, and of course the music was superb.

I really like Iron & Wine music. I like the older, more mellow stuff and I like the newer swing-y-er stuff. Live, not so much. Not sure if it was the venue (is the Fox known for good or bad acoustics??), or if he had a bad microphone, or if the sound mixing was off, but it was incredibly hard to make out the lyrics during songs -- felt like he was enunciating well, but the sound just wasn't coming through. Between songs, it was hard to make out what he was saying... thought it was me, but my wife had the same experience, and someone back behind us yelled out, "quit mumbling!" Hard to enjoy a show when you can't tell what people are singing/saying.

The theatre is beautiful, the sound is perfect. Iron and WIne put on a great show!

Coming into the concert, I knew he would have a band and that his music would be different. But I just couldn't get into it. They sounded like bad 70's covers of his own music. Sometimes adding strings, or drums, or horns, or back up singers to a track does make it a little more interesting. But doing all of them for the entire song on a lot of the most popular tracks didn't work for me. Although, he did do a beautiful rendition of flightless bird for his encore.

I love Iron & Wine. I think Sam is incredibly talented and deserves to be heard. He and his band dressed up like Jim Henson & The Muppets in honor of Halloween, which was fun. But the crowd was SO lame! You could hear a pin drop in the theater. Everyone was quiet, not very interactive, and thus the atmosphere was a little stuffy. My two friends and I imbibed on beverages during the show; dressed up in costumes; and were told to "Shhhhh" by people behind us when we hooted and hollered after each song. Yeah, NOT awesome. Would I go again? Yes. Would I act the same? Yep! Would I wish for a better crowd? Most definitely. Orpheum Theater? Gorgeous.