Calexico And Iron Wine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Calexico And Iron Wine play Father Mountain, Midnight Sun and He Lays in the Reins at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: Aug 1, 2019, Stephen Thompson Joey Burns and John Convertino had just about seen it all. Their band, Calexico, has been around for nearly a quartercentury, and in that time together they ve churned out a long string of albums and collaborated with countless musicians on countless projects. But they d never set foot behind the Tiny Desk until the day we recorded this performance. By contrast, their pal Sam Beam best known as the man behind Iron Wine, with whom Calexico had just released a new album called Years to Burn was already a Tiny Desk veteran. Beam recorded a solo set as Iron Wine in 2011, then returned with singersongwriter Jesca Hoop six years later, and he took great pains to gently tease the Calexico guys for taking