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In the Reins

A joint EP with Iron & Wine, all written by Sam Beam and recorded at Wavelab.
Calexico, 2005

Released
13 September 2005
Studio
Wavelab Studio, Tucson
Label
Overcoat Recordings
Type
ep

In the Reins is a joint EP by Calexico and Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings. Sam Beam wrote all the songs, and the two bands recorded them together at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, with Craig Schumacher recording and mixing and Nick Luca and Chris Schultz engineering. It peaked at number 135 on the Billboard 200. The two acts later covered Bob Dylan's Dark Eyes for the I'm Not There soundtrack, and Burns appears on Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog.

Track listing

  1. He Lays in the Reins3:44
  2. Prison on Route 414:11
  3. A History of Lovers3:10
  4. Red Dust3:31
  5. Sixteen, Maybe Less4:49
  6. Burn That Broken Bed5:06
  7. Dead Man's Will3:14

More from Calexico

Spoke (1996), The Black Light (1998), Hot Rail (2000), Feast of Wire (2003), Convict Pool (2004), Garden Ruin (2006), Carried to Dust (2008), Algiers (2012), Edge of the Sun (2015), The Thread That Keeps Us (2018), Years to Burn (2019), Seasonal Shift (2020), El Mirador (2022)

Sources

  1. In the Reins, Wikipedia
  2. Calexico and Iron & Wine: In the Reins (master), Discogs