The Waterboys
Fisherman's Blues, Part 2
Label:  Razor & Tie 
Date:  7/9/2002
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 On My Way To Heaven    
      2.  
      		 Higher In Time    
      3.  
      		 The Ladder    
      4.  
      		 Too Close To Heaven    
      5.  
      		 Good Man Gone    
      6.  
      		 Blues For Your Baby    
      7.  
      		 Custer's Blues    
      8.  
      		 A Home In The Meadow    
      9.  
      		 Tenderfootin'    
      10.  
      		 Lonesome Old Wind    
      11.  
      		 Higher In Time (2 pianos version)    
      12.  
      		 Ain't Leavin', I'm Gone    
      13.  
      		 Lonesome And A Long Way From Home    
      14.  
      		 The Good Ship Sirius    
      15.  
      		 Too Close To Heaven (live)    
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      Fisherman's Blues was the Waterboys' artistic pinnacle--a pop masterpiece that melded Irish folk traditions, both musical and spiritual, with rock. The prospect of a "Part Two" has had fans salivating ever since leader Mike Scott revealed the group had recorded anywhere from 70 to 150 tracks between 1986 and '87 before releasing the album in 1988. Alas, there isn't total truth in titling here, as this is less a sequel than a predecessor--a bridge between 1985's This Is the Sea and Fisherman's Blues--so we often get less of the gorgeous Celtic folk-rock vibe and more of an Irish big-rock sound (sometimes with blues and jazz rhythms); "Ain't Leavin', I'm Gone" is an actual garage rocker. Nevertheless, "Too Close to Heaven," the lyrically wonderful centerpiece, and sadly beautiful ballads like "Lonesome Old Wind" are as powerful as any pop music you're apt to hear this year. Plus, "A Home in the Meadow"--a cover of (no kidding!) that "Greensleeves" song Debbie Reynolds sang throughout How the West Was Won--should charm the socks off baby boomers. --Bill Holdship