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The Waterboys unveil Fisherman’s Box tracklisting

The Waterboys have unveiled the tracklisting for their six CD Fisherman's Box set. Due to be released on October 14, the set comprises of tracks from the band's Fisherman's Blues sessions recorded between January 23, 1986 to June 2, 1988. Mike Scott will be writing the liner notes with additional contributions from Decemberist Colin Meloy. Fisherman's Box Tracklist CDs 1-6 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

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The Waterboys have unveiled the tracklisting for their six CD Fisherman’s Box set.

Due to be released on October 14, the set comprises of tracks from the band’s Fisherman’s Blues sessions recorded between January 23, 1986 to June 2, 1988.

Mike Scott will be writing the liner notes with additional contributions from Decemberist Colin Meloy.

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Fisherman’s Box Tracklist CDs 1-6

CD 1

1. Stranger To Me

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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

The band will also tour the UK in December, which will reunite Scott and Steve Wickham with Fisherman’s-era members Anto Thistlethwaite and Trevor Hutchinson alongside current Waterboys drummer Ralph Salmins.

The tour dates are as follows:

December 8, Liverpool Philharmonic.

December 9, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

December 10, Glasgow Barrowland.

December 11, York Barbican.

December 12, Birmingham Alexandra.

December 15, Oxford New Theatre.

December 16, Guildford Glive.

December 17, Bristol Colston Hall.

December 18, Hammersmith Apollo

December 20, Drogheda Tlt.

December 21, Killarney Inec.

December 22, Galway Leisureland

December 23, Dublin Convention Centre

Full Waterboys tour dates can be found here.

Photo credit: Steve Meany

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