Iron & Wine: “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine performs “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” with a band and the Manual Cinema collective.
Iron & Wine performs “Flightless Bird, American Mouth,” a song featured on his 2007 album, “The Shepherd’s Dog,” as well as on the soundtrack for the feature film “Twilight.” The performance includes evocative animations by shadow puppeteers from the collective Manual Cinema.
Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Iron & Wine: “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine performs “Flightless Bird, American Mouth,” a song featured on his 2007 album, “The Shepherd’s Dog,” as well as on the soundtrack for the feature film “Twilight.” The performance includes evocative animations by shadow puppeteers from the collective Manual Cinema.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ I was a quick, wet boy ♪ ♪ Divin' too deep for coins ♪ ♪ All of your streetlight eyes ♪ ♪ Wide on my plastic toys ♪ ♪ And when the cops closed the fair ♪ ♪ I cut my long baby hair ♪ ♪ Stole me a dog-eared map ♪ ♪ And called for you everywhere ♪ ♪ Have I found you ♪ ♪ Flightless bird ♪ ♪ Jealous, weeping ♪ ♪ Or lost you, American mouth ♪ ♪ Big pill looming ♪ ♪ Now I'm a fat house cat ♪ ♪ Nursing my sore, blunt tongue ♪ ♪ Watching the warm poison rats ♪ ♪ Curl through the wide fence cracks ♪ ♪ Pissin' on magazine photos ♪ ♪ Those fishing lures ♪ ♪ Thrown in the cold and clean ♪ ♪ Blood of Christ mountain stream ♪ ♪ Have I found you ♪ [gentle music] ♪ Flightless bird ♪ ♪ Grounded, bleeding ♪ ♪ Or lost you, American mouth ♪ ♪ Big pill, stuck going down ♪ [gentle music continues] ♪ Down ♪ ♪ Down ♪ ♪ Whoo-hoo ♪ ♪ Down ♪ ♪ Down ♪
Iron & Wine: “All in Good Time”
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Singer-songwriter Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) performs his Grammy-nominated song “All in Good Time.” (4m 22s)
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Iron & Wine performs the song “Anyone’s Game,” a playful homage to Serbian poet Vasko Popa. (4m 8s)
Iron & Wine: "Call It Dreaming"
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Iron & Wine plays “Call It Dreaming” with a band and the shadow puppet collective Manuel Cinema. (3m 50s)
Iron & Wine: “Singers and the Endless Song”
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Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. (5m 13s)
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Iron & Wine performs with a full band and shadow puppeteers from the collective Manual Cinema. (30s)
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.