Song · Iron and Wine
“Upward Over The Mountain” by Iron and Wine
From the album The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
“Upward Over The Mountain” by Iron and Wine appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2013. It was first released in 2002 on the album The Creek Drank the Cradle. Its best result is #665 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013).
"Upward Over the Mountain" comes from The Creek Drank the Cradle, the debut album Sam Beam released as Iron & Wine through Sub Pop on September 24, 2002. Beam wrote it and sings it, and like the rest of the record it has the hush of a home recording, because that's what it is: he cut the songs on a four-track at home as demos, meaning to hand them over to Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, and the demos ended up being the album.
The critics fell hard for it. The album scored 87 on Metacritic, AllMusic's Tim Sendra counted it among 2002's best records, and Pitchfork later ranked it 137th among the top 200 albums of the decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 665 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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