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racheljoyscott · 11 months
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"RACHEL IS MY LITTLE LAMB WITH HURTING
EYES BECAUSE SHE SEES THIS EVIL WORLD
THAT IS BLINDING HER EYES WITH TEARS
SHE WAS WILLING TO DIE TO MAKE A
DIFFERENCE. SHE IS CHANGING THE WORLD
THROUGH HER DIARIES AND HER FAMILY
HER TEARS AND HER DEATH ARE NOT IN VAIN
GOD BLESS OUR LITTLE LAMB I LOVE YOU
RACHEL
YOUR BROTHER MIKE SCOTT. "
From Rachel's Smiles
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veronicabacardi · 7 months
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singeratlarge · 3 months
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SONG OF THE WEEK: “Green On Red/Frontiers Of Love” (acoustic version)* https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/prelude-green-on-red-frontiers-of-love  —Imagine walking through a night-time snowstorm across a dark, windy landscape, drawn by the promise of a warm glimmer on the horizon in a safe sheltering place. This song emerged while I was in a Celtic/Irish/Scottish music phase. I made a "full band" demo of it, then it found new life solo-acoustic, played on a 12-string detuned to open C tuning. It’s been a staple of my concert set for years, with an added mash-up of “The Whole of The Moon” (Waterboys). A couple people have detected a Yes influence in this, which I won’t deny (didn’t Jon Anderson write “Roundabout” by a Scottish lake?). However, (truth being exact), I was largely inspired from the music by the Scottish band Big Country and the U2 song "A Sort of Homecoming.”
*produced by Mark Doyon. Recorded in Winchester VA.
#Celtic #Scottish #Irish #12stringguitar #Yes #U2 #BigCountry #Waterboys #MikeScott #Moon #Homecoming #Winchester #Virginia #JohnnyJBlair #SingeratLarge #singersongwriter #recording #LeoKottke #opentuning #Frontiers #love #acoustic #night #windy #landscape
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naipan · 4 months
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Passing Through - The Waterboys (Leonard Cohen cover)
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odk-2 · 11 months
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The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)
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The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988) Mike Scott / Steve Wickham from: "Fisherman's Blues" / "Lost Highway" (Single) "Fisherman's Blues" (LP) (2006 Collectors Edition | CD1)
Folk/Rock | Celtic Folk | Contemporary Folk
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Personnel: Mike Scott: Vocals / Guitar Anthony Thistlethwaite: Mandolin Steve Wickham: Fiddle Trevor Hutchinson: Bass Peter McKinney: Drums
Produced by Mike Scott
Recorded: @ Windmill Lane Studio in Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on January 23, 1986
Album Released: October 1988
Single Released: December, 1988
Ensign Records (UK) Chrysalis Records (US)
Collectors Edition Released May 8, 2006 EMI Records
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deathnskulls · 1 year
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Mike Scott // from The Waterboys
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cbjustmusic · 10 months
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Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys with Mike Scott providing lead on “A Beautiful Life". _______________________ A Beautiful Life Songwriter: William M. Golden
Each day I'll do (each day I'll do) A golden deed (a golden deed) By helping those (by helping those) Who are in need (who are in need) My life on earth (my life on earth) Is but a span (is but a span) And so I'll do (and so I'll do the best I can)
Life's evening sun (life's evening sun) Is sinking low (is sinking low) A few more days (a few more days) And I must go (and I must go) Too meet the deed (to meet the deed) That I have done (that I have done) Where there will be (where there will be no setting sun)
To be a child (to be a child) Of God each day (of God each day) My heart mission (my heart mission) Along the way (along the way) I'll sing his praise (I'll sing his praise) While ages roll (while ages roll) And try to help (and try to help some troubled souls)
Life's evening sun (life's evening sun) Is sinking low (is sinking low) A few more days (a few more days) And I must go (and I must go) Too meet the deed (to meet the deed) That I have done (that I have done) Where there will be (where there will be no setting sun)
While going down (while going down) Life's weary road (life's weary road) I'll try to lessen (I'll try to lessen) Some travelers load (some travelers load) I'll try to turn (I'll try to turn) The nights to day (the night to day) Make flowers bloom (make flowers bloom along the way)
Life's evening sun (life's evening sun) Is sinking low (is sinking low) A few more days (a few more days) And I must go (and I must go) To meet the deed (to meet the deed) That I have done (that I have done) Where there will be (where there will be no setting sun) No setting sun
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wamnak · 1 year
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I saw this CD sitting in a pile today. This song has been a favorite since I first heard it in high school. Nothing they did before or since this album hit me hard. But this album did. Lots of memories come flooding back. Good ones.
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longliverockback · 9 months
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The Waterboys 1983 Chrysalis ————————————————— Tracks: 1. December 2. A Girl Called Johnny 3. The Three Day Man 4. Gala 5. I Will Not Follow 6. It Should Have Been You 7. The Girl in the Swing 8. Savage Earth Heart —————————————————
Nick Linden
Ray Massey
Norman Rodger
Mike Scott
Steven Tayler
Anthony Thistlethwaite
Kevin Wilkinson
* Long Live Rock Archive
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BBC Review
A passionate, poetic labour of love.
Wyndham Wallace 2011
Though Mike Scott’s attempt to marry the poetry of William Butler Yeats to his own music has been promised for two decades, it offers neither the dramatic ‘big music’ of 1985’s classic This Is the Sea, nor the kind of whimsy exhibited on their rendition of Yeats’ The Stolen Child, as declaimed by Tomás Mac Eoin for the 1988 follow up, Fishermen’s Blues, arguably the two most successful albums of The Waterboys’ career. Instead it takes the more MOR sounds of Dream Harder (1993), Scott’s first solo album in all but name – for which he also arranged another Yeats poem, Love and Death – and blends in a measured dram of his beloved Irish folk. It could have been a risky concept – accusations of pretension are never far from anyone who undertakes to put poetry to music – but Scott’s conviction, alongside his years of preparation, ensures that this is a genuinely successful experiment.
Part of that is due to the fact that the text is well suited to Scott’s vocal style, hardly a surprise since he’s spent almost 30 years singing lyrics indebted to his favourite writer. That he’s not entirely beholden to a poem’s structure also helps: he allows at the very least repetition of certain lines to fit a song better, and also occasionally interjects text from other sources, as on Sweet Dancer, which includes words from Yeats’ Morality play, The Hour Glass. Ultimately, however, its success is founded upon the fact that Yeats’ poetry genuinely sounds suited to the musical settings on offer here: the band canter through The Hosting of the Shee with glee, bestow a suitably windswept romance on White Birds, and transform The Lake Isle of Innisfree rather oddly, but nonetheless effectively, into a sluggish, violin-adorned blues. Their transformation of Let the Earth Bear Witness meanwhile stands alongside some of their best, most heartfelt work to date.
There are less convincing moments – Scott’s delivery of lines like "I sing a song of Jack and Jill / Jill had murdered Jack" (from A Full Moon in March) can’t help but come across as gauche, and occasional contributor Katie Kim’s vocals are a little bland. But Scott’s permanent air of wonder, and respectful, well-crafted arrangements, allow him to get away with even the most fanciful of tales, like that of a "little silver trout" that becomes a "…glimmering girl / With apple blossom in her hair" (Song of Wandering Aengus). "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams," Yeats wrote in He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Mike Scott has paid attention.
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the4chambersofmystery · 10 months
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"How long will I be with you?
As long as the sea is bound to
Wash upon the sand..."
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rachelscolumbine · 2 years
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Rachel with her family ❤️
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singeratlarge · 1 year
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Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
stpatrick #irishmusic #celticmusic #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #singeratlarge #green #red #U2 #Yes #waterboys #mikescott
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salmonlama · 2 years
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stroudtimes · 2 years
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Review: The Waterboys at the Sub Rooms
Word and pictures: Jonathan Duckworth This week saw another of those extraordinary Sub Rooms Stroud gigs. One that you had to be there for – a unique, passionate and informal experience. A very special gig from the Waterboys leader, Mike Scott and keyboard genius and his brother Paul. A packed Sub Rooms waited in anticipation – but were brought down to earth as the announcement was made that…
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julio-viernes · 1 month
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A sólo unos días de San Patricio, una de las mejores canciones con violín de la historia en mi opinión, "Fisherman´s Blues" de The Waterboys. Anda que no sonaba esta en El Molino y en otros sitios de la Sierra, aunque no tanto como "The Whole Of The Moon", claro. Fantástico tema que tituló el cuarto álbum de la banda de Mike Scott en 1988, esos discos que luego nunca fueron capaces de superar, aunque siguieran haciendo otros buenos discos.
The Waterboys live at Eden Court Inverness 2012. El violinista es Steve Wickham.
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