The Waterboys / Fisherman's Box - 7CD+LP Box Set

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The Waterboy's Fisherman's Box contains the complete Fisherman's Blues sessions 1986-88 spread over 6 CDs, including 80 previously unreleased tracks.  

The box also includes a bonus CD of the roots music that influenced the band, and a digital remaster of the original LP on 180gm heavyweight vinyl, along with a large format 32 page booklet with rare photographs plus track by track annotation by Mike Scott and 3 exclusive 12x12 prints.

2013 box set still sealed with hype sticker on the front. 

Fisherman’s Box Set track listing:
CD 1

  • 1. Stranger To Me
  • 2. Girl Of The North Country
  • 3. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  • 4. Fisherman’s Blues (Piano Version)
  • 5. Fisherman’s Blues
  • 6. Meet Me At The Station
  • 7. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  • 8. Born To Be Together
  • 9. The 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
  • 15. Sweet Thing (Conclusion)
  • 16. Saints And Angels

CD 2

  • 1. We Will Not Be Lovers
  • 2. One Step Closer
  • 3. My Beautiful Baby
  • 4. She Could Have Had Me Step By Step
  • 5. When The Ship Comes In
  • 6. The Ladder
  • 7. Will You Ever Be My Friend?
  • 8. Too Close To Heaven (Rolling Piano)
  • 9. Higherbound (Prototype)
  • 10. Happy Birthday Bp Fallon
  • 11. The Prettiest Girl In Church
  • 12. You Don’t Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War
  • 13. Dee Jay Way
  • 14. Lonesome And A Long Way From Home
  • 15. Thistlethwaite’s Declaration
  • 16. Strange Boat (First Play)
  • 17. Lost Highway
  • 18. Higherbound Blues
  • 19. Let Us Be Drinking And Kissing The Women
  • 20. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
  • 21. Tenderfootin’
  • 22. Too Close To Heaven
  • 23. Space Out There, Trevor

CD 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. The Secret Place Of The Most High
  • 9. Too Hot For Cleanhead
  • 10. Wickham’s Proclamation
  • 11. Blues For Your Baby
  • 12. Lonesome Old Wind
  • 13. If Jimi Was Here
  • 14. Soon As I Get Home
  • 15. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

CD 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. A Golden Age
  • 10. You In The Sky
  • 11. I Will Meet You In Heaven Again
  • 12. Nobody ‘Cept You
  • 13. (He Hasn’t Been The Same Since) Jimmy Shand
  • 14. Rattle My Bones And Shiver My Soul
  • 15. The 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

CD 5

  • 1. Higherbound (3rd Version)
  • 2. The Grief Of Pan
  • 3. World Party
  • 4. Working On A Building
  • 5. If I Can’t Have You
  • 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
  • 19. A Home In The Meadow
  • 20. Strange Boat (3rd Version) / The Good Ship Sirius
  • 21. The Stolen Child (Prototype)

CD 6

  • 1. On My Way To Tara
  • 2. Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants
  • 3. Incident At Puck Fair
  • 4. And A Bang On The Ear
  • 5. Mr Customs Man
  • 6. Strange Boat (Acoustic)
  • 7. Spring Comes To Spiddal
  • 8. In Search Of A Rose (Band)
  • 9. The Stolen Child (Piano Demo)
  • 10. When Will We Be Married?
  • 11. In Search Of A Rose (Duo)
  • 12. The Good Ship Sirius (Set Of Jigs)
  • 13. This Land Is Your Land
  • 14. Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz
  • 15. Live Aid And After
  • 16. Carolan’s Welcome
  • 17. When Ye Go Away
  • 18. When Ye Go Away (Frankie’s Fiddle)
  • 19. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
  • 20. The Stolen Child (Vocal Demo)
  • 21. Dunford’s Fancy
  • 22. The Stolen Child
  • 23. Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
  • 24. Bo Diddley Was A Caveman
  • 25. The Last Jam
  • 26. Buckets Of Rain

CD 7 'Fisherman's Roots' (Super Deluxe Edition Bonus CD)

  • Blind Roger Hays – "On My Way to Heaven" (Traditional), 1928
  • Brother Williams Memphis Sanctified Singers – "Meet Me at the Station" (Traditional), 1930
  • The Carter Family – "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Alvin Pleasant Carter), 1935
  • The Guitar Evangelist (Edward W. Clayborn) – "The Gospel Train Is Coming" (Traditional), 1936
  • Woody Guthrie – "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie), 1944
  • Hank Williams – "Honky Tonkin'" (Hank Williams), 1947
  • Two Gospel Keys – "I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore" (Jones, Daniels), 1948
  • Hank Williams – "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams), 1949
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – "Lost Highway" (Leon Payne), 1972
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Mother Maybelle Carter – "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Alvin Carter, Ada Habershon, Charles Gabriel), 1972
  • Planxty – "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair dom do Lámh" (Traditional; arranged by Planxty), 1973
  • Dé Danann – "Maggie" (John McCormack), 1981
  • The Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles – "Carolan’s Welcome" (Carolan), 1982
  • Noel Hill & Tony Mac Mahon – "The Humours of Castlefin" (Traditional/Noel Hill), 1985
  • Dónal Lunny – "Across The Hill/Gold Ring" (Traditional arranged by Dónal Lunny), 1987
  • Tomás Mac Eoin – "An Cailin Alainn (The Beautiful Girl)" (Music: Traditional, words: Thomas Mac Eoin), 1987

Vinyl LP

1 Fisherman's Blues 4:26
2 We Will Not Be Lovers 7:03
3 Strange Boat
4 World Party 4:01
5 Sweet Thing 7:14
6 Jimmy Hickey's Waltz 2:06
7 And A Bang On The Ear 7:33
8 Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? 3:19
9 When Will We Be Married? 3:00
10 When Ye Go Away 3:45
11 Dunford's Fancy
Bouzouki – Brendan O'Regan
Fiddle – Steve Wickham
Written-By – Wickham*
1:04
12 The Stolen Child
Adapted By [Words To Music], Music By – Mike Scott
Bells – Paraig Stevens
Bouzouki – Trevor Hutchinson
Fiddle – Steve Wickham
Flute, Horn [Border] – Colin Blakey
Piano, Vocals – Mike Scott
Saxophone – Anthony Thistlethwaite
Voice [Spoken] – Tomás McKeown*
Words By – W.B. Yeats*
6:56
13 This Land Is Your Land
Written-By – Woody Guthrie

 

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The Waterboys / Fisherman's Box - 7CD+LP Box Set

The Waterboys / Fisherman's Box - 7CD+LP Box Set

Price
£85