Fisherman's Blues [Collectors' Edition]

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Album: Fisherman's Blues [Collectors' Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Fisherman's Blues	More Info...	0:04
2)	We Will Not Be Lovers	More Info...	0:07
3)	Strange Boat	More Info...	0:03
4)	World Party	More Info...	0:05
5)	Sweet Thing	More Info...	0:07
6)	Jimmy Hickey's Waltz	More Info...	0:02
7)	And a Bang On the Ear	More Info...	0:09
8)	Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?	More Info...	0:03
9)	When Will We Be Married?	More Info...	0:03
10)	When Ye Go Away	More Info...	0:03
11)	Dunfords Fancy	More Info...	0:01
12)	The Stolen Child	More Info...	0:07
13)	This Land Is Your Land	More Info...	0:01
14)	Soon As I Get Home	More Info...	0:12

Album: Fisherman's Blues [Collectors' Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Fisherman's Blues	More Info...	0:04
2)	We Will Not Be Lovers	More Info...	0:07
3)	Strange Boat	More Info...	0:03
4)	World Party	More Info...	0:05
5)	Sweet Thing	More Info...	0:07
6)	Jimmy Hickey's Waltz	More Info...	0:02
7)	And a Bang On the Ear	More Info...	0:09
8)	Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?	More Info...	0:03
9)	When Will We Be Married?	More Info...	0:03
10)	When Ye Go Away	More Info...	0:03
11)	Dunfords Fancy	More Info...	0:01
12)	The Stolen Child	More Info...	0:07
13)	This Land Is Your Land	More Info...	0:01
14)	Soon As I Get Home	More Info...	0:12

Performer Notes

Producers: Mike Scott, Johnston, Vinnie Kilduff, Dunford.
Adapter: Mike Scott .
The Waterboys: Trevor Hutchinson (bass guitar); Fran Breen, Peter McKinney, Colin Blakey, Dave Ruffy, Mike Scott , Noel Bridgeman, Anthony Thistlethwaite, Steve Wickham.
Personnel: Mike Scott (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, piano, electric piano, organ, drums, percussion); Steve Wickham (vocals, fiddle, background vocals); Vinnie Kilduff (guitar, tin whistle, Uilleann pipe, background vocals); Trevor Hutchinson (bouzouki, upright bass); Brendan O'Regan, Alec Finn (bouzouki); Anthony Thistlethwaite (mandolin, harmonica, saxophone, baritone saxophone); D?nal Lunny (mandolin, bodhran); Frankie Gavin (fiddle, tin whistle); Charlie Lennon (fiddle); Colin Blakey (flute, tin whistle, horns, piano); Noel Bridgeman (accordion, drums, bass drum, congas, tambourine); M?irt?n O'Connor (accordion); Roddy Lorimer (trumpet); Bill Whelan (piano); Fran Breen, Peter McKinney, Dave Ruffy, Jay Dee Daugherty, Jim Keltner, John Connolly, Kevin Wilkinson (drums); Padraig Stevens (bells); Liam O Maonla? (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Mike Scott .
Recording information: Charlie Lennon's House (01/23/1986-06/02/1988); Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA (01/23/1986-06/02/1988); Spiddal House (01/23/1986-06/02/1988); Windmill Lane (01/23/1986-06/02/1988).
Editors: Mike Scott ; Chris Madden.
Arrangers: Mike Scott ; Trevor Hutchinson; Anthony Thistlethwaite; Steve Wickham; Frankie Gavin; Charlie Lennon.
On their early albums, the Waterboys became known as practitioners of "the Big Sound," an epic, wide-screen musical vision on a par with the contemporaneous offerings of U2 and Big Country, making them the musical equivalents of Cecil B. DeMille. For FISHERMAN'S BLUES, though, they decided to scale things down considerably, departing for a little while from their outsized pop/rock ambitions to embrace Celtic roots, folk, and heavily Dylan-influenced, BLOOD ON THE TRACKS-like folk-rock. The gambit paid off better than anyone could have expected, resulting in one of the band's most memorable, moving albums.
Singer Mike Scott emerges here as a gifted troubadour, a mode he'd explore more fully years later in his solo work. Where he once spun grand statements framed by booming drums and echoing guitars, here he makes simple romantic observations backed by fiddles and acoustic guitars. A surprising nod to country roots pops up as well, with "Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?," but, in the end, FISHERMAN'S BLUES is closer to the Celtic soul of prime Van Morrison (whose "Sweet Thing" is covered here) than it is to either the band's rootsier influences or to any 1980s contemporaries.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 3.5 Stars - Very Good

Q (p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "FISHERMAN'S BLUES shares the same spiritual rock space as U2's late-'80s work, but with one essential difference: it's rooted in fiddle-driven Irish folk music."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.119) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] packs class from port to starboard, the singer tapping the incantatory power of WB Yeats, then spitting bile on the dizzying, inspired 'We Will Not Be Lovers'..."

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