The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67819   Message #1136839
Posted By: Dave Bryant
15-Mar-04 - 07:39 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Sydney Carter (1915-2004)
Subject: RE: Obit: Sydney Carter
A lovely man - I first heard him at Hampstead Folk Club (The Enterprise) in the early 60s. I have always been impressed with how he managed to write wonderful songs in so many different genres - Religious, Protest, Romantic, Comic etc. Perhaps "Silver in the Stubble" sums him up. He always said that it was influenced by St Augustine's prayer - "Lord make me chaste - but not yet !"