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Bushes & Briars

from Home Waters Live by Sam Carter

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    When Sam Carter envisioned his acclaimed fourth album Home Waters - released in the early throes of the pandemic - as 'a search for a sense of belonging and stability in unfamiliar territory', he couldn't have known how prescient that would turn out to be.

    Sam returns now with Home Waters Live, his first post-lockdown performance with the Home Waters Quartet, captured in exquisite studio-quality audio. This Bandcamp-exclusive album features a brand new version of the traditional English song Just As The Tide Was Flowing, as well as all the songs of Home Waters, alongside selected songs from Sam's back catalogue. The perfect audio companion to the online premiere of Home Waters In Concert, which airs on Bandcamp on 24th September, to coincide with the album release.

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  • Home Waters artwork woodcut print, designed and hand-printed to order by Sheffield artist John Pedder. Sold unframed, this landscape print measures around 25" by 13" (slightly bigger than a gatefold vinyl cover). Limited to 50 signed numbered editions.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Get all 8 Sam Carter releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Home Waters Live, Home Waters, How The City Sings, Live At The Union Chapel, The No Testament, Lumpy's Lullaby, Keepsakes, and Here In The Ground. , and , .

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lyrics

I can’t believe that it’s so cold
And there ain’t been no snow
The sound of music it comes to me
From every place I go
Sunday morning, there’s no one in church
But the clergy’s chosen man
And he is fine I won’t worry about him
He’s got the book in his hand

There’s a bitter east wind and the fields are swaying
The crows are round their nests
I wonder what he’s in there saying
To all those souls at rest
I see the path which led to the door
And the clergy’s chosen man
Bushes and briars, you and I
Where do we stand?

I wonder if he knows I’m here
Watching the briars grow
And all these people beneath my shoes
I wonder if they know
There was a time when every last one
Knew a clergy’s chosen man
Where are they now? Thistles and thorns
Among the sand

I can't believe that it’s so cold
And there ain’t been no snow
The sound of music it comes to me
From every place I go
Sunday morning, there’s no one in church
But the clergy’s chosen man
Bushes and briars, thistles and thorns
Upon the land

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from Home Waters Live, released September 24, 2021

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Sam Carter Sheffield, UK

‘Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection’ Songlines

2010 BBC Folk Awards Horizon Award Winner

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