The Waterboys – Atlantic Rain – The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings This is a classy first-rate package, refined & decorative with accessories that include a beautiful 54pp perfect-bound book with credits, lyrics, liner notes, photography & prestigious artwork. All in a slipcase & die-cut 6-panel heavy cardboard booklet. Years ago, The Waterboys emerged as a […]
Fisherman’s Blues, the fourth and best-known album by the UK’s Waterboys, signaled a quantum leap for an already excellent band. The result of three years of studio work, this 1988 LP found the group expanding its focus from alt-rock to embrace country, folk, gospel, and soul as well as traditional Irish, Scottish, and Celtic music. […]
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On August 1, 2021, Vivien Cooper and Brother Paul Brown – organist (and the only American) in The Water Boys – released their first collaboration: a quarter-hour children’s album The Instrumental Alphabet. Cooper wrote the poem that playfully, but challengingly for a child just learning, meanders through the alphabet with words beginning with surrounding […]
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