Limited Edition of 50 (25 remaining), Hand-made CD recording of Porter Songs 1: Shepherd Wheel to Forge Dam. In a lovely recycled card case and hand numbered.
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about
Sheffield is one of those places that holds on to people. There’s faded character in every unexpected corner, from its historic parks, to tumbledown little mester workshops, even the street art-adorned derelict Edgelands of derelict works. I’ve spoken to many people who came to Sheffield and settled. I expect I’ll do the same. I felt at home as soon as I started wandering absentmindedly around the place. Perhaps the steep hillsides help keep us in.
There’s no denying the Porter River’s special atmosphere. Echoes of the past reverberate through the trees, and in the flowing water. I think, for most people who visit it, there is an instant bond formed. My good friend Mike came to visit for a weekend, so we caught the 272 to Hathersage and walked back home over Stanage Edge and Ringinglow. This was enough for him to find inspiration for this lovely song, in which he captures the transient nature of the river, and the lives of those who live alongside it…
lyrics
Above the town
amid the sedges and the peat,
Where gritstones
and poets chance to meet.
Passed the farms
And millstones fallen down,
And churchyard, ruins
To the town.
And so you carry me
Just like your iron-rusted water
So many memories.
Over wears
and dams to turning wheels,
Forging iron and grinding steel.
On the banks
Of the river I feel,
Life was hard, and it was real.
And so you carry me,
Just like your iron-rusted water,
So many memories,
Floating down the Porter
So many lives come and gone,
The mills, but one, all broken.
But as your water flows on,
So life too keeps moving along.
And so you carry me,
Just like your iron-rusted water,
So many memories,
Floating down the Porter
credits
from Porter Songs,
released June 21, 2015
Words: Mike Warnes; Music: Scott Russell
Performed and recorded by Scott Russell.
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