Room to Roam

by The Waterboys

Room to Roam cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Ensign
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:31:42
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Anthony Thistlethwaite, Diarmuid O'Suilleabhan, Colin Blakey, Neil Sidwell, Steve Wickham, Trevor Hutchinson, Sharon Shannon, Eileen Begley, Noel Bridgeman, Mike Scott, Kieran Wilde, Barry Beckett, Seamus Begley, Roddy Lorimer, John 'Turps' Burke

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing the deep immersion into traditional Irish folk established on 'Fisherman's Blues', Mike Scott's collective recorded this joyous, largely acoustic album entirely in County Galway. It features an incredibly loose, collaborative ensemble before internal disagreements led to the group's dissolution.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, folk, acoustic, storytelling, traditional

Tracklist

  1. In Search of a Rose (1:20)
  2. Song from the End of the World (1:59)
  3. A Man Is in Love (3:18)
  4. Bigger Picture (2:26)
  5. Natural Bridge Blues (2:06)
  6. Something That Is Gone (3:16)
  7. The Star and the Sea (0:26)
  8. A Life of Sundays (6:13)
  9. Islandman (2:06)
  10. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (2:58)
  11. How Long Will I Love You (3:38)
  12. Upon the Wind and Waves (0:44)
  13. Spring Comes to Spiddal (1:24)
  14. The Trip to Broadford (1:14)
  15. Further Up, Further In (5:32)
  16. Room to Roam (2:55)
  17. The Kings of Kerry (0:58)
  18. In Search of a Rose (2:28)
  19. My Morag (The Exile's Dream) (2:11)
  20. A Man Is in Love - Alternative Version (3:20)
  21. The Wyndy Wyndy Road (1:53)
  22. Three Ships (3:22)
  23. Sunny Sailor Boy (3:06)
  24. Sponsored Pedal Pusher's Blues (2:50)
  25. The Wayward Wind (3:47)
  26. Danny Murphy / Florence (2:22)
  27. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy - Live (4:30)
  28. Custer's Blues - Live (4:37)
  29. Twa Recruitin' Sergeants - Live (4:10)
  30. A Reel and a Stomp in the Kitchen (0:51)
  31. Down by the Sally Gardens (3:48)
  32. A Strathspey in the Rain at Dawn (1:23)
  33. A Song for the Life (3:49)
  34. The Kings of Kerry (0:27)

Credits

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