Name: An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2022 Remaster) par The Waterboys
Brand: The Waterboys
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The idea that the poetry of Ireland's William Butler Yeats could be set to rock music and captured adequately (let alone eloquently) by Mike Scott and his Waterboys sounds pretentious at the least. Yet, they proved it possible with "Stolen Child" on Fisherman's Blues, then with "Love and Death" off Dream Harder. Yeats and Scott share not only iconic status among their followers, they are also regarded as iconoclasts. The former was born a Catholic, became an atheist, and eventually found spirituality in nature and the occult. He was a celebrated poet and playwright but became a hard-willed, even ruthless politician in his defense of Irish freedom and unity. The latter is a controversial rocker and producer who has aspired to be a mystic, a social and political raconteur, a poet, and a traditional and postmodern balladeer. Also like Yeats, Scott's art has been adventurous: he's taken chances that have not always netted him critical -- or commercial -- success. An Appointment with Mr. Yeats contains 14 tunes adapted from the Irish poet's works that are wedded to musical compositions by Scott (with fiddler Steve Wickham and Catalonian trombonist Blaise Margail helping on the charts). These last two are members of a ten piece Waterboys that include its members keyboardist James Hallawell, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, bassist/co-producer Marc Arciero, flutist Sarah Allen and vocalist Katie Kim (who steals the show on the simple and sparse "Sweet Dancer," one of the set's finest moments.) The opener, "The Hosting of the Shee," begins with Celtic reggae but becomes a Celtic rocker with swooping strings and layered guitars. On "News for the Delphic Oracle," cabaret music gets transformed into Celtic cinematic stomp. There are hints of Scott's last proper album, The Book of Lightning, evidenced by "September 1913" with soulful jazz piano by Hallawell, and "Politics" with its horn charts that could have been lifted from Dexys Midnight Runners' debut album, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels. The all-too-brief "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," with its organs and Rhodes piano, get underscored by a military snare drum and Scott's voice haunting in the verses. The only misstep is that "Let the Earth Bear Witness," with its hymnodic reverence, should have closed the set instead of the ethereal "Faery's Last Dance," but that's a minor quibble. Scott and his band have pulled off a gloriously wide-ranging celebration in An Appointment with Mr. Yeats; it is the Waterboys' strongest effort since Room to Roam. ~ Thom Jurek

An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2022 Remaster)

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. The Hosting of the Shee

2. Song of Wandering Aengus

3. News for the Delphic Oracle

4. A Full Moon in March

5. Sweet Dancer

6. White Birds

7. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

8. Mad as the Mist and Snow

9. Before the World Was Made

10. September 1913

11. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

12. Politics

13. Let the Earth Bear Witness

14. The Faery's Last Song

15. A Faery Song (We Who Are Old)

16. The Four Ages of Man

17. Our Father Rosy-Cross

18. Do Not Love Too Long

19. The Travelling Man and the Tree

20. News for the Delphic Oracle

Volume 2

1. The Hosting of the Shee

2. Before the World Was Made

3. White Birds

4. A Coat

5. A Full Moon in March

6. Sweet Dancer

7. Paistin Finn

8. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

9. The Song of Wandering Aengus

10. The Pilgrim

11. Politics

12. Tread Softly, For You Tread on My Dreams

13. Love Song

14. September 1913

15. Let the Earth Bear Witness

16. Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites

17. Down by the Salley Gardens

18. White Birds

19. Sweet Dancer

20. A Song of the Rosy-Cross

21. The Mask

22. Mad as the Mist and Snow / Needle's Eye / The Second Coming

23. The Faery's Last Song

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