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Woman King

album by Iron & Wine

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ8030696 ↗
Source-derived summary

Woman King is the fourth EP from Iron & Wine (aka Samuel Beam), released on February 22, 2005, by Sub Pop Records.

Woman King expanded on the studio sounds that marked his previous LP, Our Endless Numbered Days, and also included electric guitars. Each track featured a spiritual female figure and had subtle Biblical undertones, although Beam has said in interviews that he is agnostic.

Editorial summary

“Woman King” enters the record as album by Iron & Wine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Woman, King and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Woman, King and album.
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Why this record matters

“Woman King” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Woman, King and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8030696. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woman King” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.