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At Long Last, Iron & Wine Drops 'Waves Of Galveston'

Iron & Wine has been performing the song live since at least 2013, but has just given it its first proper release ahead of the band's upcoming EP, Weed Garden.

has been blessedly prolific since releasing , his debut as , in 2002: In addition to six official studio albums and a bunch, and ' Ben Bridwell. In fact, Beam's catalog is deep and rich enough that some of his best songs get buried — take, for example, the nine-minute masterpiece "," which he'd once relegated to the soundtrack for the 2004 film .

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