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Take Me to the Water / Prayer

from The New Faith by Jake Blount

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    NOTE: Due to supply chain issues and manufacturing delays, the LP is slated for early 2023. The bundle will ship when both the LP and shirt are available.

    Bundle featuring Jake Blount's 'The New Faith' album on LP and t-shirt. (All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.) [note: photos are mock-ups of actual products]

    Standard weight and standard color vinyl LP in a single pocket jacket with liner notes insert. This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Bundle featuring Jake Blount's 'The New Faith' album on CD and t-shirt. (All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.) [note: photos are mock-ups of actual products]

    CD in digipak case with liner notes insert. This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Faith via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $31 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    **NOTE** Due to vinyl manufacturing delays and supply chain issues, the release date on the vinyl edition of 'The New Faith is to be determined, estimated early 2023.

    Standard weight and standard color vinyl LP in a single pocket jacket with liner notes insert. [note: the photo is a mock-up image]

    All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Faith via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20.98 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD in digipak case with liner notes insert. [note: photo of product is a mock-up image]. All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Faith via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $16.98 USD or more 

     

  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

    All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail. [note: photo is mock-up of actual product]
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $22 USD or more 

     

lyrics

Take me to the water
Take me to the water
Take me to the water
To be baptized

We gather here today to confess and be cleansed in the eyes of our creator

We gather here to be washed clean of the sins of humanity

We gather here to reject the greed of our forefathers

Here, where dead sea meets withered land

We see the jagged remnants of the old cities piercing the tops of the waves, and they pierce our hearts with the revelation:

Yours and the earth’s are all the glories that endure.

And for all our toil, in the end

We must submit to your judgment

As they did.

Chant: Judgment/Judgment Bar

For it is the fate of all humankind to be judged.

Our forefathers took without giving, took without need -- took things that they had neither desire nor use for, and threw them away.

They covered the face of the ancient planet in newborn desert.

They melted the ice at the ends of the earth, drowned the coast,

Emptied seas and forests of life,

Filled the very oceans with fire,

And were judged.

You see the verdict there, in yonder drowned city.

We, their children, are cursed to wander,

Deprived of land that can sustain us by our own ancestors.

But we keep the stories.

We remember what set man on the downward road

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from The New Faith, released September 23, 2022

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Jake Blount Providence, Rhode Island

Jake Blount is an award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and scholar. He has studied with modern masters of old-time music, including Bruce Molsky, Judy Hyman (of the Horse Flies), and Rhiannon Giddens and Hubby Jenkins (of the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops). Although he is proficient in multiple old-time styles, he specializes in the music of Black and Native American communities. ... more

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