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Fisherman's Box

The Waterboys

Released: 2013

Mike Scott had been pursuing his grandiose "big music" since he founded the Waterboys, so it came as a shock when he scaled back the group's sound for the Irish and English folk of Fisherman's Blues. Although the arena-rock influences have been toned down, Scott's vision is no less sweeping or romantic, making even the simplest songs on Fisherman's Blues feel like epics. Nevertheless, the album is the Waterboys' warmest and most rewarding record, boasting a handful of fine songs ("And a Bang on the Ear," the ominous "We Will Not Be Lovers," "Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?," and the title track), as well as a surprisingly successful cover of Van Morrison's breathtaking "Sweet Thing." [Fisherman's Blues was reissued in 2006 with a bonus disc containing 14 outtakes, alternate versions, and late-night studio jams.

Track List

1Stranger to Me4:13

2Girl of the North Country4:23

3I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry3:23

4Fisherman's Blues (piano version)5:23

5Fisherman's Blues4:24

6Meet Me at the Station3:24

7I'll Be Your Baby Tonight3:36

8Born to Be Together5:21

9The Wayward Wind3:43

10World Party (1st version)3:18

11World Party / A Golden Age3:42

12Sleek White Schooner2:13

13Drunken Head Ghost of Rimbaud Blues5:28

14Sweet Thing7:11

15Sweet Thing (conclusion)2:01

16Saints and Angels10:47

1We Will Not Be Lovers7:01

2One Step Closer2:47

3My Beautiful Baby2:05

4She Could Have Had Me Step by Step2:09

5When the Ship Comes In0:56

6The Ladder2:57

7Will You Ever Be My Friend?3:52

8Too Close to Heaven (rolling piano)5:07

9Higherbound (prototype)1:03

10Happy Birthday BP Fallon0:44

11The Prettiest Girl in Church3:28

12You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War3:56

13Dee Jay Way0:45

14Lonesome and a Long Way From Home3:04

15Thistlethwaite's Declaration0:48

16Strange Boat (first play)5:07

17Lost Highway4:34

18Higherbound Blues2:16

19Let Us Be Drinking and Kissing the Women2:01

20Will the Circle Be Unbroken5:17

21Tenderfootin'5:13

22Too Close to Heaven12:28

23Space Out There, Trevor1:04

1Steve and Anto's Overture0:31

2Ain't Leavin, I'm Gone3:18

3When Will We Be Married (1st version)2:45

4When I First Said I Loved Only You, Maggie4:30

5Love Is Letting Go0:27

6On My Way to Heaven (1st version)4:47

7You in the Sky (1st version)3:59

8The Secret Place of the Most High1:56

9Too Hot for Cleanhead4:14

10Wickham's Proclamation1:54

11Blues for Your Baby5:42

12Lonesome Old Wind8:16

13If Jimi Was Here1:14

14Soon as I Get Home25:57

15Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band3:00

1Billy the Kid2:22

2Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down2:23

3Come Live With Me7:20

4I Miss the Road4:42

5Higher in Time (two pianos)3:37

6Too Hot for Cleanhead (fast version)2:20

7Higher in Time (Scottish)2:26

8Higherbound (3rd tune)1:56

9A Golden Age4:05

10You in the Sky5:46

11I Will Meet You in Heaven Again3:26

12Nobody 'Cept You3:04

13(He Hasn't Been the Same Since) Jimmy Shand2:36

14Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul2:39

15The Scotsman's Delight0:57

16Killing My Heart4:45

17Industrial Mr Brown2:01

18Custer's Blues5:31

19Shall We Gather by the River3:00

20Higher in Time Symphony10:49

1Higherbound (3rd version)5:16

2The Grief of Pan2:15

3World Party5:28

4Working on a Building3:26

5If I Can't Have You3:30

6Killing My Heart (2nd version)4:31

7Trunk Call1:22

8Headphone Mix Song1:22

9Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)5:26

10When Will We Be Married (2nd version)2:38

11BP's Bathtub Boogie6:44

12We Will Not Be Lovers (sax solo)2:10

13Heading Down the Highway2:07

14Strange Boat5:37

15Fisherman's Blues (2nd version)5:49

16Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? (Bridgeman version)3:31

17On My Way to Heaven3:43

18Let Me Feel Holy Again6:09

19A Home in the Meadow2:44

20Strange Boat (3rd version) / The Good Ship Sirius3:40

21The Stolen Child (prototype)1:41

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