An Appointment With Mr Yeats (2022 Remaster)

Limited LP : Green Vinyl [Released 02/12/22]

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. 

1. The Hosting Of The Shee (2022 Remaster)
2. Song Of Wandering Aengus (2022 Remaster)
3. News For The Delphic Oracle (2022 Remaster)
4. A Full Moon In March (2022 Remaster)
5. Sweet Dancer (2022 Remaster)
6. White Birds (2022 Remaster)
7. The Lake Isle Of Innisfree (2022 Remaster)
8. Mad As The Mist And Snow (2022 Remaster)
9. Before The World Was Made (2022 Remaster)
10. September 1913 (2022 Remaster)
11. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (2022 Remaster)
12. Politics (2022 Remaster)
13. Let The Earth Bear Witness (2022 Remaster)
14. The Faery's Last Song (2022 Remaster)
15. A Faery Song (We Who Are Old) (Demo)
16. The Four Ages Of Man (Demo)
17. Our Father Rosy-Cross (Demo)
18. Do Not Love Too Long (Demo)
19. The Travelling Man And The Tree (Demo)
20. News For The Delphic Oracle (Demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHxoZa89s4&list=PLA5zQ1xNekgpbuLRKXRqpmES8O-qbEEL6