The Waterboys-Fisherman´s Blues (1988)

During the existence of The Waterboys, which would last from the early 80s to the present, the group has gone through several musical facets, with first albums with dramatic, majestic sounds and in a way quite prolific in a definition of a new concept, British rock of the eighties.
It would be after the album "This is the sea" (1985), when its leader Mike Scott moved to Ireland and for three years was influenced by traditional Irish music and folk in general.
In 1988 Scott took the band to Spiddal, in the west of Ireland, where they created a recording studio at Spiddal House to finalize their new album "Fisherman's Blues", which was released in October 1988 and was packed with guest musicians. The album divided fans by the new influence of Scottish and Irish folk with great influences from Van Morrison, the Chieftains and distant echoes of the most epic Bob Dylan, when many expected a continuation of the sound of "This is the sea".
However the album helped greatly popularize Irish music, reaching the top 20 of the British charts and achieving its first gold record.
"Fisherman Blues" is a rock classic, where we find a dreamlike universe and in which appears what is perhaps the best-known song of The Waterboys worldwide and above all, one of their fundamental timeless hymns.