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Iron & Wine's Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop announce collab LP and tour with Marlon Williams (dates, song stream)

by Andrew Sacher

photo by Josh Wool
Sam Beam Jesca Hoop

Iron & Wine main member Sam Beam has teamed up with fellow indie-folk singer Jesca Hoop for a collaborative album called Love Letter for Fire. It’s due April 15 via Sub Pop, and the first single is the gentle, warm-sounding “Every Songbird Says.” Check it out, with the artwork and tracklist, below (via Pitchfork).

Other contributors on the album include Wilco‘s Glenn Kotche, Robert Burger, Eyvind Kang, Sebastian Steinberg, and Edward Rankin-Parker. It was produced, recorded and mixed by Tucker Martine.

Sam and Jesca will also support the album on a tour with New Zealand Dead Oceans signee Marlon Williams opening. Th tour hits NYC on May 20 at Town Hall. Tickets go on sale February 19 at noon.

All dates are listed below…

Sam Beam Jesca Hoop

Tracklist:
01 Welcome to Feeling
02 One Way to Pray
03 The Lamb You Lost
04 We Two are a Moon
05 Midas Tongue
06 Know the Wild That Wants You
07 Every Songbird Says
08 Bright Lights and Goodbyes
09 Kiss Me Quick
10 Chalk it Up to Chi
11 Valley Clouds
12 Soft Place to Land
13 Sailor to Siren

Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop — 2016 Tour Dates
05-17 Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark *
05-18 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Theatre *
05-20 New York, NY – Town Hall *
05-21 Washington, DC – Lincoln Theater *
05-22 Boston, MA – Wilburn Theater *
05-24 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
05-26 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre*
05-27 New Orleans, LA – Civic Theater *
05-28 Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater *
05-30 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre *
05-31 Los Angeles, CA – Fonda Theater *
06-02 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
06-03 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater *
06-04 Seattle, WA – Neptune Theater *
06-05 Boise, ID – Egyptian Theater *
06-06 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater *
06-08 Omaha, NE – Slowdown *
06-09 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater *
06-10 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall *
06-11 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *

* with Marlon Williams