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The Forge

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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  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • 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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    releases

    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 grew up where the ground shook to the sound
Of the smith striking down on the anvil
And I saw my name in the furnace flame
When the day came to take up the mantle
Now I’ll stoke the fire, oh yes I’ll stoke the fire
And smoke will pour from the chimney
With a myth and a voice as my tools of choice
I’ll be down at the forge if you need me

Word gets around, I’m the talk of the town
’Cos I know what the folks here are after
Turn a phrase just right and it catches the light
Like a blade in the hands of a master
I’ll stoke the fire, oh yes I’ll stoke the fire
From far and wide they seek me
For a tale so sharp it could puncture the dark
I’ll be down at the forge if you need me

One line from me and the pauper’s king of all he sees
One line from me and the king’s swinging from the gallows tree

Now the smith’s hammer’s still and from up on the hill
I can take in the sounds in the valley
Every mercy plea, every curse on the breeze
Is a spark to the cinders inside me
I’ll stoke the fire, oh yes I’ll stoke the fire
Though the work will never be easy
Every true story told turns lead into gold
I’ll be down at the forge if you need me
Every true story told turns lead into gold
I’ll be down at the forge if you need me

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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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