Fisherman’s Box

Tracklist

• CD 1: Dublin, 23 January 1986
• 1
  Stranger to Me
  4:13
• 2
  Girl of the North Country
  4:22
• 3
  I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  3:23
• 4
  Fisherman’s Blues (piano version)
  5:22
• 5
  Fisherman’s Blues
  4:23
  3.9 ★
• 6
  Meet Me at the Station
  3:23
• 7
  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  3:36
• 8
  Born to Be Together
  5:21
• 9
  The Wayward Wind
  3:43
• 10
  World Party (1st version)
  3:18
• 11
  World Party / A Golden Age
  3:41
• 12
  Sleek White Schooner
  2:12
• 13
  Drunken Head Ghost of Rimbaud Blues
  5:28
• 14
  Sweet Thing
  7:10
• 15
  Sweet Thing (conclusion)
  2:01
• 16
  Saints and Angels
  10:46
• CD 2: Dublin, March 22 to September 13 1986
• 1
  We Will Not Be Lovers
  7:01
• 2
  One Step Closer
  2:46
• 3
  My Beautiful Baby
  2:04
• 4
  She Could Have Had Me Step by Step
  2:08
• 5
  When the Ship Comes In
  0:55
• 6
  The Ladder
  2:57
• 7
  Will You Ever Be My Friend?
  3:51
• 8
  Too Close to Heaven (rolling piano)
  5:07
• 9
  Higherbound (prototype)
  1:03
• 10
  Happy Birthday BP Fallon
  0:44
• 11
  The Prettiest Girl in Church
  3:27
• 12
  You Don’t Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War
  3:55
• 13
  Dee Jay Way
  0:45
• 14
  Lonesome and a Long Way From Home
  3:04
• 15
  Thistlethwaite’s Declaration
  0:48
• 16
  Strange Boat (first play)
  5:06
• 17
  Lost Highway
  4:33
• 18
  Higherbound Blues
  2:16
• 19
  Let Us Be Drinking and Kissing the Women
  2:01
• 20
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  5:16
• 21
  Tenderfootin’
  5:13
• 22
  Too Close to Heaven
  12:28
• 23
  Space Out There, Trevor
  1:03
• CD 3: Berkeley, California, 2–7 December 1986
• 1
  Steve and Anto’s Overture
  0:31
• 2
  Ain’t Leavin, I’m Gone
  3:18
• 3
  When Will We Be Married (1st version)
  2:44
• 4
  When I First Said I Loved Only You, Maggie
  4:29
• 5
  Love Is Letting Go
  0:27
• 6
  On My Way to Heaven (1st version)
  4:47
• 7
  You in the Sky (1st version)
  3:59
• 8
  The Secret Place of the Most High
  1:56
• 9
  Too Hot for Cleanhead
  4:13
• 10
  Wickham’s Proclamation
  1:54
• 11
  Blues for Your Baby
  5:41
• 12
  Lonesome Old Wind
  8:16
• 13
  If Jimi Was Here
  1:13
• 14
  Soon as I Get Home
  25:57
• 15
  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2:59
• CD 4: Dublin, 20 December 1986 to 28 February 1987
• 1
  Billy the Kid
  2:21
• 2
  Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
  2:22
• 3
  Come Live With Me
  7:19
• 4
  I Miss the Road
  4:41
• 5
  Higher in Time (two pianos)
  3:37
• 6
  Too Hot for Cleanhead (fast version)
  2:19
• 7
  Higher in Time (Scottish)
  2:25
• 8
  Higherbound (3rd tune)
  1:56
• 9
  A Golden Age
  4:04
• 10
  You in the Sky
  5:46
• 11
  I Will Meet You in Heaven Again
  3:26
• 12
  Nobody ’Cept You
  3:03
• 13
  (He Hasn’t Been the Same Since) Jimmy Shand
  2:36
• 14
  Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul
  2:38
• 15
  The Scotsman’s Delight
  0:56
• 16
  Killing My Heart
  4:44
• 17
  Industrial Mr Brown
  2:01
• 18
  Custer’s Blues
  5:31
• 19
  Shall We Gather by the River
  2:59
• 20
  Higher in Time Symphony
  10:48
• CD 5: Dublin, 7 March to 18 November 1987
• 1
  Higherbound (3rd version)
  5:16
• 2
  The Grief of Pan
  2:15
• 3
  World Party
  5:27
• 4
  Working on a Building
  3:25
• 5
  If I Can’t Have You
  3:29
• 6
  Killing My Heart (2nd version)
  4:30
• 7
  Trunk Call
  1:21
• 8
  Headphone Mix Song
  1:22
• 9
  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
  5:25
• 10
  When Will We Be Married (2nd version)
  2:38
• 11
  BP’s Bathtub Boogie
  6:44
• 12
  We Will Not Be Lovers (sax solo)
  2:09
• 13
  Heading Down the Highway
  2:07
• 14
  Strange Boat
  5:37
• 15
  Fisherman’s Blues (2nd version)
  5:48
• 16
  Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? (Bridgeman version)
  3:31
• 17
  On My Way to Heaven
  3:42
• 18
  Let Me Feel Holy Again
  6:08
• 19
  A Home in the Meadow
  2:43
• 20
  Strange Boat (3rd version) / The Good Ship Sirius
  3:40
• 21
  The Stolen Child (prototype)
  1:40
• CD 6: Dublin & Spiddal, 30 March to 2 June 1988
• 1
  On My Way to Tara
  5:02
• 2
  Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants
  4:19
• 3
  Incident at Puck Fair
  4:06
• 4
  And a Bang on the Ear
  9:13
• 5
  Mr Customs Man
  2:50
• 6
  Strange Boat (acoustic)
  2:34
• 7
  Spring Comes to Spiddal
  1:17
• 8
  In Search of a Rose (band)
  3:35
• 9
  The Stolen Child (piano demo)
  1:04
• 10
  When Will We Be Married
  2:57
• 11
  In Search of a Rose (duo)
  1:37
• 12
  The Good Ship Sirius (set of jigs)
  2:41
• 13
  This Land Is Your Land
  4:26
• 14
  Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz
  2:05
• 15
  Live Aid and After
  1:00
• 16
  Carolan’s Welcome
  2:48
• 17
  When Ye Go Away
  3:41
• 18
  When Ye Go Away (Frankie’s fiddle)
  0:49
• 19
  Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
  3:16
• 20
  The Stolen Child (vocal demo)
  0:52
• 21
  Dunford’s Fancy
  1:02
• 22
  The Stolen Child
  6:50
• 23
  Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
  1:01
• 24
  Bo Diddley Was a Caveman
  1:39
• 25
  The Last Jam
  4:40
• 26
  Buckets of Rain
  4:00

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Release credits

• Anthony Thistlethwaite
  mandolin [1.5, 6.14]
• John Dunford
  producer [14]
• John Grimes
  recording [5]
• Mike Scott
  drums (drum set) [14], guitar [5], piano [14], producer [1.5, 6.14], vocal [5]
• Pat McCarthy
  recording [1.5, 6.14]
• Pearse Dunne
  recording [5]
• Peter McKinney
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Phil Tennant
  mix [5]
• Steve Wickham
  fiddle [6.14, 1.5]
• Trevor Hutchinson
  bass [14], bass guitar [5], double bass [14]

Issues

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  Fisherman’s Box

  6x CD
  October 2013