The Waterboy’s Fisherman’s Boxcontains 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 and3 exclusive 12×12 prints.

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

Fishermans Box Set track listing:
CD 1

1. Stranger To Me
2. Girl Of The North Country
3. Im So Lonesome I Could Cry
4. Fishermans Blues (Piano Version)
5. Fishermans Blues
6. Meet Me At The Station
7. Ill 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 Dont Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War
13. Dee Jay Way
14. Lonesome And A Long Way From Home
15. Thistlethwaites 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 Antos Overture
2. Aint Leavin, Im 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. Wickhams Proclamation
11. Blues For Your Baby
12. Lonesome Old Wind
13. If Jimi Was Here
14. Soon As I Get Home
15. Sgt Peppers 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 Hasnt Been The Same Since) Jimmy Shand
14. Rattle My Bones And Shiver My Soul
15. The Scotsmans Delight
16. Killing My Heart
17. Industrial Mr Brown
18. Custers 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 Cant Have You
6. Killing My Heart (2nd Version)
7. Trunk Call
8. Headphone Mix Song
9. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
10. When Will We Be Married? (2nd Version)
11. Bps Bathtub Boogie
12. We Will Not Be Lovers (Sax Solo)
13. Heading Down The Highway
14. Strange Boat
15. Fishermans 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 Hickeys Waltz
15. Live Aid And After
16. Carolans Welcome
17. When Ye Go Away
18. When Ye Go Away (Frankies Fiddle)
19. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
20. The Stolen Child (Vocal Demo)
21. Dunfords Fancy
22. The Stolen Child
23. Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24. Bo Diddley Was A Caveman
25. The Last Jam
26. Buckets Of Rain

CD7 ‘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 Dont 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 Lmh” (Traditional; arranged by Planxty), 1973
D Danann “Maggie” (John McCormack), 1981
The Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles “Carolans Welcome” (Carolan), 1982
Noel Hill & Tony Mac Mahon “The Humours of Castlefin” (Traditional/Noel Hill), 1985
Dnal Lunny “Across The Hill/Gold Ring” (Traditional arranged by Dnal Lunny), 1987
Toms 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] Toms McKeown*
Words By W.B. Yeats*
6:56
13 This Land Is Your Land
Written-By Woody Guthrie

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