Richmond Magazine has a short interview/profile of Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam–
Before singer-songwriter Sam Beam of Iron & Wine rose to folk-music stardom in the mid-2000s, he was a VCU undergraduate living on Laurel Street in Oregon Hill.
…He says that river references serve as the binding imagery for his latest album.
“It’s the classic cross-cultural metaphor for the life journey,” Beam says, adding that he used to frequent Pony Pasture and Belle Isle when he lived here in the mid-’90s.
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“My memories of Richmond are so fond,” Beam says. “I met my wife there, it was a big time for Sam.”