The Waterboys
Fisherman's Box: The Complete Fisherman's Blues Sessions 1986-1988
Fisherman's Box: The Complete Fisherman's Blues Sessions 1986-1988
UPC: 825646413300
Format: CD (6 disc)
Release Date: Nov 26, 2013
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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. It was reissued again in 2013 as a seven-disc box set featuring 121 tracks from the album sessions, 85 of which had been previously unavailable.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Stranger to Me
2 - Girl of the North Country [2013 Remaster]
3 - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
4 - Fisherman's Blues [Piano Version]
5 - Fisherman's Blues [2013 Remaster]
6 - Meet Me at the Station [2013 Remaster]
7 - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
8 - Born to Be Together
9 - Wayward Wind
10 - World Party [1st Version]
11 - World Party/A Golden Age
12 - Sleek White Schooner
13 - Drunken Head Ghost of Rimbaud Blues
14 - Sweet Thing [2013 Remaster]
15 - Sweet Thing (Conclusion)
16 - Saints and Angels
Disc 2:
1 - We Will Not Be Lovers [2013 Remaster]
2 - One Step Closer
3 - My Beautiful Baby
4 - She Could Have Had Me Step by Step
5 - When the Ship Comes In
6 - Ladder [2013 Remaster]
7 - Will You Ever Be My Friend?
8 - Too Close to Heaven [Rolling Piano]
9 - Higherbound [Prototype]
10 - Happy Birthday BP Fallon
11 - Prettiest Girl in Church
12 - You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight the War
13 - Dee Jay Way
14 - Lonesome and a Long Way from Home [2013 Remaster]
15 - Thistlethwaite's Declaration
16 - Strange Boat [First Play]
17 - Lost Highway
18 - Higherbound Blues
19 - Let Us Be Drinking and Kissing the Women (Sonny Brogan's Jig)
20 - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
21 - Tenderfootin' [2013 Remaster]
22 - Too Close to Heaven [2013 Remaster]
23 - Space Out There Trevor
Disc 3:
1 - Steve and Anto's Overture
2 - Ain't Leavin I'm Gone
3 - When Will We Be Married [1st Version]
4 - When I First Said I Loved Only You Maggie
5 - Love Is Letting Go
6 - On My Way to Heaven [1st Version]
7 - You in the Sky [1st Version]
8 - Secret Place of the Most High
9 - Too Hot for Cleanhead
10 - Wickham's Proclamation
11 - Blues for Your Baby [2013 Remaster]
12 - Lonesome Old Wind [2013 Remaster]
13 - If Jimi Was Here
14 - Soon as I Get Home
15 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Disc 4:
1 - Billy the Kid
2 - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
3 - Come Live with Me
4 - I Miss the Road
5 - Higher in Time [Two Pianos]
6 - Too Hot for Cleanhead [Fast Version]
7 - Higher in Time [Scottish]
8 - Higherbound [3rd Tune]
9 - Golden Age
10 - You in the Sky [2013 Remaster]
11 - I Will Meet You in Heaven Again
12 - Nobody 'cept You [2013 Remaster]
13 - (He Hasn't Been the Same Since) Jimmy Shand
14 - Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul [2013 Remaster]
15 - Scotsman's Delight
16 - Killing My Heart
17 - Industrial Mr Brown
18 - Custer's Blues
19 - Shall We Gather by the River
20 - Higher in Time Symphony
Disc 5:
1 - Higherbound [3rd Version]
2 - Grief of Pan
3 - World Party [2013 Remaster]
4 - Working on a Building
5 - If I Can't Have You [2013 Remaster]
6 - Killing My Heart [2nd Version]
7 - Trunk Call
8 - Headphone Mix Song
9 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
10 - When Will We Be Married [2nd Version]
11 - BP's Bathtub Boogie
12 - We Will Not Be Lovers [Sax Solo]
13 - Heading Down the Highway
14 - Strange Boat
15 - Fisherman's Blues [2nd Version]
16 - Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? [Bridgeman Version]
17 - On My Way to Heaven
18 - Let Me Feel Holy Again [2013 Remaster]
19 - Home in the Meadow
20 - Strange Boat [3rd Version]/The Good Ship Sirius
21 - Stolen Child [Prototype]
Disc 6:
1 - On My Way to Tara
2 - Twa Recruitin' Sergeants
3 - Incident at Puck Fair
4 - And a Bang on the Ear [2013 Remaster]
5 - Mr. Customs Man
6 - Strange Boat
7 - Spring Comes to Spiddal
8 - In Search of a Rose [Band]
9 - Stolen Child [Piano Demo]
10 - When Will We Be Married [2013 Remaster]
11 - In Search of a Rose [Duo]
12 - Good Ship Sirius (Set Of Jigs)
13 - This Land Is Your Land
14 - Jimmy Hickey's Waltz [2013 Remaster]
15 - Live Aid and After
16 - Carolan's Welcome [2013 Remaster]
17 - When Ye Go Away [2013 Remaster]
18 - When Ye Go Away [Frankie's Fiddle]
19 - Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? [2013 Remaster]
20 - Stolen Child [Vocal Demo]
21 - Dunford's Fancy [2013 Remaster]
22 - Stolen Child [2013 Remaster]
23 - Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24 - Bo Diddley Was a Caveman
25 - Last Jam
26 - Buckets of Rain
1 - Stranger to Me
2 - Girl of the North Country [2013 Remaster]
3 - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
4 - Fisherman's Blues [Piano Version]
5 - Fisherman's Blues [2013 Remaster]
6 - Meet Me at the Station [2013 Remaster]
7 - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
8 - Born to Be Together
9 - Wayward Wind
10 - World Party [1st Version]
11 - World Party/A Golden Age
12 - Sleek White Schooner
13 - Drunken Head Ghost of Rimbaud Blues
14 - Sweet Thing [2013 Remaster]
15 - Sweet Thing (Conclusion)
16 - Saints and Angels
Disc 2:
1 - We Will Not Be Lovers [2013 Remaster]
2 - One Step Closer
3 - My Beautiful Baby
4 - She Could Have Had Me Step by Step
5 - When the Ship Comes In
6 - Ladder [2013 Remaster]
7 - Will You Ever Be My Friend?
8 - Too Close to Heaven [Rolling Piano]
9 - Higherbound [Prototype]
10 - Happy Birthday BP Fallon
11 - Prettiest Girl in Church
12 - You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight the War
13 - Dee Jay Way
14 - Lonesome and a Long Way from Home [2013 Remaster]
15 - Thistlethwaite's Declaration
16 - Strange Boat [First Play]
17 - Lost Highway
18 - Higherbound Blues
19 - Let Us Be Drinking and Kissing the Women (Sonny Brogan's Jig)
20 - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
21 - Tenderfootin' [2013 Remaster]
22 - Too Close to Heaven [2013 Remaster]
23 - Space Out There Trevor
Disc 3:
1 - Steve and Anto's Overture
2 - Ain't Leavin I'm Gone
3 - When Will We Be Married [1st Version]
4 - When I First Said I Loved Only You Maggie
5 - Love Is Letting Go
6 - On My Way to Heaven [1st Version]
7 - You in the Sky [1st Version]
8 - Secret Place of the Most High
9 - Too Hot for Cleanhead
10 - Wickham's Proclamation
11 - Blues for Your Baby [2013 Remaster]
12 - Lonesome Old Wind [2013 Remaster]
13 - If Jimi Was Here
14 - Soon as I Get Home
15 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Disc 4:
1 - Billy the Kid
2 - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
3 - Come Live with Me
4 - I Miss the Road
5 - Higher in Time [Two Pianos]
6 - Too Hot for Cleanhead [Fast Version]
7 - Higher in Time [Scottish]
8 - Higherbound [3rd Tune]
9 - Golden Age
10 - You in the Sky [2013 Remaster]
11 - I Will Meet You in Heaven Again
12 - Nobody 'cept You [2013 Remaster]
13 - (He Hasn't Been the Same Since) Jimmy Shand
14 - Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul [2013 Remaster]
15 - Scotsman's Delight
16 - Killing My Heart
17 - Industrial Mr Brown
18 - Custer's Blues
19 - Shall We Gather by the River
20 - Higher in Time Symphony
Disc 5:
1 - Higherbound [3rd Version]
2 - Grief of Pan
3 - World Party [2013 Remaster]
4 - Working on a Building
5 - If I Can't Have You [2013 Remaster]
6 - Killing My Heart [2nd Version]
7 - Trunk Call
8 - Headphone Mix Song
9 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
10 - When Will We Be Married [2nd Version]
11 - BP's Bathtub Boogie
12 - We Will Not Be Lovers [Sax Solo]
13 - Heading Down the Highway
14 - Strange Boat
15 - Fisherman's Blues [2nd Version]
16 - Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? [Bridgeman Version]
17 - On My Way to Heaven
18 - Let Me Feel Holy Again [2013 Remaster]
19 - Home in the Meadow
20 - Strange Boat [3rd Version]/The Good Ship Sirius
21 - Stolen Child [Prototype]
Disc 6:
1 - On My Way to Tara
2 - Twa Recruitin' Sergeants
3 - Incident at Puck Fair
4 - And a Bang on the Ear [2013 Remaster]
5 - Mr. Customs Man
6 - Strange Boat
7 - Spring Comes to Spiddal
8 - In Search of a Rose [Band]
9 - Stolen Child [Piano Demo]
10 - When Will We Be Married [2013 Remaster]
11 - In Search of a Rose [Duo]
12 - Good Ship Sirius (Set Of Jigs)
13 - This Land Is Your Land
14 - Jimmy Hickey's Waltz [2013 Remaster]
15 - Live Aid and After
16 - Carolan's Welcome [2013 Remaster]
17 - When Ye Go Away [2013 Remaster]
18 - When Ye Go Away [Frankie's Fiddle]
19 - Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? [2013 Remaster]
20 - Stolen Child [Vocal Demo]
21 - Dunford's Fancy [2013 Remaster]
22 - Stolen Child [2013 Remaster]
23 - Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24 - Bo Diddley Was a Caveman
25 - Last Jam
26 - Buckets of Rain