On "Fisherman's Blues" Mike Scott & company pour their hearts out in roots music so genuinely felt that it will turn any listening area into a cottage on the moors. The instrumentation is heavily Irish with mandolins, fiddles, harmonicas, flutes, upright bass & even the occasional Greek Bazouki.
This album represents a musical version of James Joyce's Ireland: everything is sung about in a dreamlike intoxication whether it be wine, women, work, waves or the world.
1. Fisherman's Blues
2. We Will Not Be Lovers
3. Strange Boat
4. World Party
5. Sweet Thing
6. Jimmy Hickey's Waltz
7. And A Bang On The Ear
8. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
9. When Will We Be Married?
10. When Ye Go Away
11. Dunford's Fancy
12. The Stolen Child