Taking the name Iron & Wine, Beam found even more success with the disc that followed 2004’s Our Endless Numbered Days. For his new disc Ghost on Ghost he returns to working with Our Endless Numbered Days producer Brian Deck. In our interview today he looks back at those early records and talks about how his five daughters influence his songwriting now. Plus Christopher Owens. The former lead singer of Girls surprised everyone when he left that band almost immediately after they released their second album. He hints at why he decided to go solo at the height of their popularity and shares how the band’s first tour inspired his solo debut Lysandre.