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Surprise View

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.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Home Waters Live via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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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

    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

On Surprise View on a clear day
When the sky opens wide
I can almost hear her breathing by my side

So I come here every summer
And I walk on till I stand
Where we’d lay down in the heather
Where I asked for her hand

And it’s how I’ll always see her
In a pair of walking boots
Soaking in the morning sun
Up on Surprise View

Now her old boots line the hallway
Gathering dust, laces loose
In the same place since the day she heard the news

I was shaking and the sunrise
Was the last thing on my mind
But she asked me if I’d drive her
To Surprise View one last time

And it’s how I’ll always see her
In a pair of walking boots
Soaking in the morning sun
Up on Surprise View

As the sun sinks and I’m leaving
I think back to those days
Though she’s gone now she’s not missing
’Cos I know where she stays

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from Home Waters Live, released September 24, 2021

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‘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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