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 fourteen outtakes, alternate versions and late-night studio jams. The re-mastered original included extended versions of "And a Bang on the Ear" and "World Party."]
I don't remember who turned me on to The Waterboys. It was back when I lived in Nashville, probably in one of the clubs there. Before I moved there from New Orleans I was under the mistaken impression that it would be virtually all country music; I was very much mistaken. It wasn't as vibrant a musical mecca as New Orleans, but it was actually pretty darn close. One of the many pleasures there ...
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| 1 Fisherman's Blues |
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| 2 We Will Not Be Lovers |
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| 3 Strange Boat |
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| 4 World Party |
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| 5 Sweet Thing |
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| 6 Jimmy Hickey's Waltz |
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| 7 And a Bang on the Ear |
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| 8 Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? |
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| 9 When Will We Be Married? |
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| 10 When Ye Go Away |
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| 11 Dunford's Fancy |
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| 12 The Stolen Child |
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| 13 [Untitled Track] |
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