We Were Born in a Flame by Sam Roberts

We Were Born in a Flame, Sam Roberts' debut full-length album, came out in 2003, and it's big, swaggering Canadian rock and roll with a songwriter's eye. Several of these songs had been around the block already: "Brother Down" and "Don't Walk Away Eileen" had worked radio and video in Canada for his EP The Inhuman Condition, and early takes of "Brother Down", "Taj Mahal", "The Canadian Dream", "On The Run", "Climb Over Me" and "Paranoia" had surfaced on his independent Brother Down back in 2000.

Here several of them return, with "Brother Down" re-recorded, a new version of "Where Have All the Good People Gone?" serving as the first Canadian single, and "Hard Road" following with its own video. In 2004 the album cleaned up at the Junos, taking Album of the Year and Rock Album of the Year, while Roberts was named Artist of the Year. Chemical City came next.

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