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Fisherman's Blues

Artist The Waterboys Released 1988 Type album

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The only The Waterboys record held here. It came five years into a run that began in 1983. 1988 is eighteen years into Celtic rock, which this tree dates from 1970. It is one of the four records Celtic rock is listed as starting from.

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Fisherman's Blues is the fourth studio album by the Waterboys, released by Ensign Records in October 1988. The album marked a change in the band's sound, with them abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music, and rock and roll. Critics were divided on its release with some disappointed at the change of direction and others ranking it among the Waterboys' best work. The album was

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