Claude says:Around the Well is a live document of Iron & Wine in their acoustic storytelling prime, recorded at a Brooklyn venue in 2009 when Sam Beam's fingerpicking and whispered vocals felt like the most intimate thing in indie rock. You've circled back to it sparingly but deliberately over the past couple years, landing hard on The Trapeze Swinger—a song that rewards the kind of patient, solitary listening your archive suggests you prefer.