Iron & Wine

It felt like just a long... a long like road trip with friends, but we'd play shows every night.

And it was so new that it felt like every single night, whether we were opening for a bunch of people that had never heard of us, like opening for bands like Iron and Wine.

And like you said, My Morning Jacket, The Decembrists, we did a run with.

Dr.

The list of artists Nick played first is honestly kind of legendary.

Phoenix, Iron and Wine, Arctic Monkeys, My Morning Jacket.

I was at a non-com conference in Louisville, Kentucky 20 years ago and saw My Morning Jacket, invited them on the show.

And the week later, they drove from Louisville, Kentucky to Santa Monica to do the show.

But then when I hit, I think, 16, 17, 18, I discovered... indie, more folky sounds.

I wanted to play Jose Gonzalez today, but I don't know if we have enough time, but things like Bon Iver, Iron and Wine...

I love Iron and Wine.

That... rainy day kind of music

basically the period of life that we're in right now exactly exactly this

And they were like, cool.

I did it with Naked As We Came by Iron and Wine as well.

I think it was a Sufjan Zong and Iron and Wine song.

You picked some good songs.

This is awesome.

It was, it was a, it was a pretty much a freak-out moment of like, "What are we doing?" Like, "How, how do we, how did we get to this point," right? And it was a, um, it was, it was magical.

It was, it was 2020, so like Nathaniel Rateliff, uh, Iron & Wine, Ingrid Michaelson, um, back then Mandolin Orange, who is now Watchhouse-

Mm-hmm

... um, and a bunch of other-

[audience applauds] Well, we are excited to hear it all today, and we're gonna hear some music.

Joined by Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, here's Wynonna Judd performing Hear Me Now off her new album, The Hard Truth.

[audience applauds]

[singing] This is where I'm at right now.

Thank you guys so much for being here.

Thanks for having us.

A big thank you to Wynonna Judd and Sam Beam.

The Hard Truth is out now, and you can see Wynonna in a city near you-

They were total game changers for bands.

They were total game changers for labels, and I have to tell you, because we were lucky enough to have a handful of artists who were actually bringing in real licensing money with The Shins, with Iron & Wine, with The Postal Service, with Pigeonhead, and Battle Flag, we were bringing in real money through licensing and at a time when the label was starting to do well but still not out of the woods as far as financial challenges.

There's more than one memory I have where I was nervous about whether we would be able to make payroll, and I vividly remember licensing money coming in that would more than cover not just one payroll but more than one payroll.

Licensing literally kept us afloat as a label, and it allowed for us to get on our feet.

And then also, uh, he's doing two in Cork.

Iron & Wine is on support.

Yeah, Iron & Wine will be his support act.

And tickets go on sale on Friday, 10 AM.

And it's the first time back in Cork and in Belfast in over five years.