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The Waterboys - An Appointment With Mr Yeats (2022 Remaster, Green Vinyl)
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An
Appointment
with
Mr
Yeats
sees
the
words
of
W
B
Yeats,
one
of
Ireland's
greatest
literary
sons,
merged
with
the
music
of
The
Waterboys,
one
of
Britain
and
Ireland's
greatest
rock
bands,
in
a
truly
unique
and
ambitious
musical
undertaking.
The
album
was
originally
released
in
2011,
and
has
been
fully
remastered
for
re-issue,
and
now
contains
6
previously
unreleased
bonus
tracks.
The
Waterboys
vocalist
Mike
Scott,
first
delivered
a
new
dimension
to
Yeats'
poetry
in
1988,
when
he
wrote
a
musical
accompaniment
for
the
classic
poem
The
Stolen
Child,
during
the
making
of
the
Waterboys
seminal
album
'Fisherman's
Blues'.
Five
years
later
he
set
another
Yeats
poem
to
music,
Love
and
Death,
which
appeared
on
their
'Dream
Harder'
album.
Over
the
years,
Scott
had
been
quietly
crafting
a
wealth
of
material
similarly
based
on
the
writings
of
Yeats.
A
number
of
these
were
performed
by
him
at
the
Abbey
Theatre
during
the
Yeats
International
Festival
in
1991,
but
most
had
remained
in
Scott's
private
songbook
awaiting
the
right
vehicle.
An
Appointment
with
Mr.
Yeats
was
that
long-awaited
context.
Scott's
love
of
literature
is
firmly
embedded
throughout
the
work
of
The
Waterboys.
He
has
also
put
the
writings
of
Robert
Burns,
James
Stephens,
Kenneth
Grahame
and
George
MacDonald
to
song.
Speaking
on
his
literary
influences
and
loves,
Scott
explained:
"I
grew
up
in
a
house
full
of
books
so
literature
-
and
language
-
have
always
been
important
to
me.
Working
with
other
peoples'
words
is
something
that
comes
as
natural
to
me
as
working
with
my
own.
In
a
way
it's
even
more
immediate;
I've
always
found
writing
music
an
easier
process
than
the
writing
of
lyrics,
and
setting
words
of
the
quality
of
Yeats'
to
music
is
an
enormous
privilege
and
treat."
An
Appointment
with
Mr.
Yeats
is
a
unique
and
memorable
opportunity
for
lovers
of
great
music
and
great
literature
to
celebrate
the
union
of
song
and
word
in
one
spectacular
record.
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