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

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