Fisherman's Box (CD7 + LP)

CD1 DUBLIN, 23 JANUARY 1986

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

CD2 DUBLIN, MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1986

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

CD3 BERKLEY, CALIFORNIA, 2-8 DECEMBER 1986

1. Steve And Anto's Overture
2. Ain't Leavin', I'm Gone
3. When Will We Be Married (1st version)
4. 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 Folkrock
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

CD4 DUBLIN, 20 DEC 1986 TO 28 FEBRUARY 1987

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

CD5 DUBLIN, FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1987

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)
21. The Stolen Child (prototype)

CD6 SPIDDAL, 13 APRIL TO 2 JUNE 1988

1. On My Way To Tara
2. Incident At Puck Fair
3. Twa Recruitin' Sergeants
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. The Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24. Bo Diddley Was A Caveman
25. The Last Jam
26. Buckets Of Rain

CD7 INFLUENCES

1. BLIND ROGER HAYS - On My Way To Heaven
2. BROTHER WILLIAMS & MEMPHIS SANCTIFIED SINGERS - Meet Me At The Station
3. THE CARTER FAMILY - Can The Circle Be Unbroken?
4. GUITAR EVANGELIS, REV EDWARD W. CLAYBORN - The Gospel Train Is Coming
5. WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land
6. HANK WILLIAMS - Honky Tonkin'
7. TWO GOSPEL KEYS - I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
8. HANK WILLIAMS - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry           
9. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND - Lost Highway 
10. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND & MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER - Will The Circle Be Unbroken?   
11. PLANXTY - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy        
12. DE DANNAN - Maggie           
13. THE SCOTTISH FIDDLERS OF LOS ANGELES - Carolan's Welcome
14. NOEL HILL & TONY MacMAHON - The Humours Of Castlefin                                  
15. DONAL LUNNY - Gold Ring                    
16. TOMAS MAC EOIN - An Cailin Allain                                                

LPA FISHERMAN'S BLUES

1. Fisherman's Blues
2. We Will Not Be Lovers
3. Strange Boat
4. World Party
5. Sweet Thing

LPB FISHERMAN'S BLUES

1. And A Bang On The Ear
2. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
3. When Will We Be Married?
4. When Ye Go Away
5. Dunford's Fancy
6. The Stolen Child
7. This Land Is Your Land

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of The Waterboys’ Fisherman’s Blues, Mike Scott has trawled the vaults to create the ultimate companion to this seminal album. Fisherman’s box comprises the complete Fisherman’s Blues sessions 23rd January 1986 to 2nd June 1988, across 6 CD’s. The deluxe version of this release also includes a 17 track album from artists that influenced the making of the record.

Special 12 x 12 limited edition box contains:

- 6CDs of the sessions plus a 7th (Europe only) containing 17 recordings that influenced Mike Scott in the preparation of the album.

- 121 tracks (not including influences disc) with almost 90 previously unreleased

- A  32 page 12 x 12 format booklet containing An introductory 1600 word essay by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists,
a 10,000 word track by track annotation by Mike Scott & many rare, previously unseen photographs and 3 large format photographic prints

A 180gsm vinyl version of the original album direct metal mastered using the 2006 remaster.