An Appointment with Mr Yeats
2011 studio album by the Waterboys
An Appointment with Mr. Yeats | ||||
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Studio album by the Waterboys | ||||
Released | 19 September 2011 | |||
Recorded | London, Dublin | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Puck | |||
Producer | Mike Scott, Marc Aciero | |||
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An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is the tenth studio album by the Waterboys, released on 19 September 2011 through W14/Proper Records. The album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.[1][2]
Scott premiered the tracks which would make up the album, as well as those produced previously, as part of the An Appointment with Mr. Yeats concerts from 2010 onwards. Some shorter tracks such as Down by the Salley Gardens were either omitted entirely or provided as bonus tracks available for download only. [1]
Track listing
- "The Hosting of the Shee"
- "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
- "News for the Delphic Oracle"
- "A Full Moon in March"
- "Sweet Dancer"
- "White Birds"
- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
- "Mad As the Mist and Snow"
- "Before the World Was Made"
- "September 1913"
- "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
- "Politics"
- "Let the Earth Bear Witness"
- "The Faery's Last Song"
Amazon
- Bonus Track "Four Ages of Man"
iTunes
- Bonus Track "Love Song"
- Bonus Track "The Mask"
Personnel
- Mike Scott - vocals, 6- & 12-string acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards (including acoustic & electric pianos, organ, flute organ, Mellotron, synthesized cello/horns/flute/mountain horn), 8-string bouzouki, percussion (hand drum, tiny cymbals, deep drum, snare drum, cabasa), programming, effects, treatments, "loop archaeology" on 'White Birds'
- Marc Arciero - bass guitar (credited throughout as "earth resonator")
- Ralph Salmins - drums (including "orc-drums" on 'The Hosting of the Shee'), tambourine
- Steve Wickham - fiddles (including "pogged" and "fuzz" fiddles), "white birds" on 'White Birds'
- James Hallawell - keyboards (including Hammond & Nord organs, piano, synthesized "etheric strings")
- Kate St. John - saxophone, oboe, cor anglais
- Blaise Margail - trombone
- Sarah Allen - flute
- Joe Chester - guitars, harmonium, additional vocals
- Katie Kim - vocals (including whispers on 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree')
- Freddie Stevenson - vocals
References
External links
- Official Page
- v
- t
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- The Waterboys (1983)
- A Pagan Place (1984)
- This Is the Sea (1985)
- Fisherman's Blues (1988)
- Room to Roam (1990)
- Dream Harder (1993)
- A Rock in the Weary Land (2000)
- Universal Hall (2003)
- Book of Lightning (2007)
- An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2011)
- Modern Blues (2015)
- Out of All This Blue (2017)
- Where the Action Is (2019)
- Good Luck, Seeker (2020)
- All Souls Hill (2022)
- Bring 'Em All In (1995)
- Still Burning (1997)
- The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (1998)
- Karma to Burn (2005)
- The Best of the Waterboys 81–90 (1991)
- The Secret Life of the Waterboys 81–85 (1994)
- The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys (1998)
- Too Close to Heaven (2001)
- In a Special Place – The Piano Demos for This Is the Sea (2011)
- Fisherman's Box (2013)
- The Magnificent Seven (2021)
- "A Girl Called Johnny"
- "December"
- "The Big Music"
- "The Whole of the Moon"
- "Don't Bang the Drum"
- "Fisherman's Blues"
- "And a Bang on the Ear"
- "How Long Will I Love You?"
- "The Return of Pan"
- "Glastonbury Song"
- "Everybody Takes a Tumble"
- "World Party"
- "A Life of Sundays"
- "Bring 'Em All In"
- "Building the City of Light"
- "Love Anyway"
- "Rare, Precious and Gone"