Making a living from music was nothing more than a pipe dream for 39-year-old at the turn of the 21st Century. Circa 2001, Beam had completed an MFA from ’s film school and was working as a professor of film at the in Miami (now referred to as the Art Institute). Becoming a world traveling, indie folk troubadour gracing the pages of was furthest from his mind. As a hobby, the gifted artist had been messing around in his Miami Beach bedroom with a mike and eight tracks, recording tenderly wispy, introspective numbers under the pseudonym Iron and Wine–named after …
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