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{The Blue Banner) Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Iron and Wine plays Peel Trevor Metcalfe TEMETCAL@UNCA.EDU STAFF WRITER Sith ''"k^he Orange Peel. Beam farga^hTs'^conc"®' musical »' '’'"’self as a Sam Beam is the rare sort of artist who inspires even when he changes his style mid-show. Cnnrprt ^ “The campfire sing- uuiibcrt a-long is over,” Beam ' Review ssaid with a chuck le while switching styles. “Now it’s time to get nasty.” Beam, under his stage name Iron and Wine, played an hour-and-a-half set to a sold-out crowd at The Orange Peel on Nov. 15. Known for his mellow and melan choly acoustic numbers. Beam has released four studio albums under the Iron and Wine moniker. Beam’s Southern roots came through m both his music and stage banter. Originally from Chapin, S.C., Beam began making demos on a four-track recorder before signing to Sub Pop records to record his first album. The Creek Drank the Cradle. His populari ty has grown steadily with each album released, along with use of his music in movies such as Garden State and Twilight. T can’t remember these words sometimes,” Beam joked after one number. “Sometimes you end up sing ing these songs so many times that you’re like, T don’t remember what’s coming next,’ but the way the words fall out is like, ‘Well, that’s cool.’” Hannah Grace, an art student at UNC Asheville, applauded Beam’s stage presence and humorous interac tions with the crowd. • He’s hilarious and has that crazy Southern drawl and was obviously there to please his fans,” Grace said. His jokes made the show more per sonal, seeing as they were mostly re sponses to comments and yells from the crowd.” The 36-year-old performed the first half of the show alone with his acous tic guitar, playing crowd favorites like the somber “Trapeze Swinger” and the hopeful “Naked as We Came.” See concert Page 13