Both Iron and Wine are one guy, Sam Beam, who has been making music under the moniker since 2002, when he released his first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle. Since then, there's no way you haven't heard Beam's music playing softly in cafés or, more recently, in the series finale of Parenthood (his cover of "Forever Young" was appropriately tear-worthy). To celebrate the release of Archive Series Vol. 1, a collection of unreleased songs written during the Creek Drank the Cradle era, we asked Beam to name a few of his favorite Iron & Wine songs. Very humbly, he obliged:
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