Other musicians were called in to join in the many lengthly recording sessions. Steven Wickham had joined the band after the Waterboys This is the Sea album had been released. It would take two years to record, and two countries. When You Go Away, always one that makes a tear come.įisherman’s Blues was released on October 17, 1988. I have a fantasy that the final boxed set that came out in 2013 will be released as vinyl, if it was, I may find it.

It was a record that may have only been released with 10-13 tracks depending on your country, however much, much more was recorded over the two year recording period and released on subsequent compilations. This October marks the 30th anniversary of the album. However, I always found a way back to it when it was needed. There may have been times in my life that I didn’t listen to it, it lay dormant as some of our favorite albums do due to family issues, me issues. I have had it in various forms ever since. Had to sell it during dire straights, got a copy back a few years later, used as I wanted the original issue. I think I played the album on cassette until I stretched that tape too much. The Waterboys were definitely going in new directions. Blending traditional and new sound, they were creating a bigger, deeper music. When I heard the change in the Waterboys music with the new single, it took a few times of playing the tape over, but I was hooked. I had really enjoyed what had been called, “The Big Music”, a single from their A Pagan Place album, a music sense that spirituality and the land and people came together, and a music sound that was big and grabbed you.

I had been listening to the Waterboys first 3 Albums for years, and it had been fun trying to get import copies of them in the early 80s in San Francisco. I remember the first time I heard the song “Fisherman’s Blues “on my local college radio station in California.

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