Going against the grain of the slick, glossy productions found on most popular rock albums in the 1980s, The Waterboys had their greatest commercial success in the U.S. with the folky Fisherman’s Blues, released in 1988. There is no mistaking the Celtic influence on the arrangement of the raucous rocker “World Party,” which was one […]
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