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Too Close to Heaven
Rock · 2001 · 10 tracks

Too Close to Heaven

The Waterboys

Loose, soulful outtakes from the Fisherman's Blues sessions. A twelve-minute title track anchors this collection of spiritual, piano-led Celtic folk-rock.

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It's the secret, soul-drenched heart of the Fisherman's Blues sessions that's actually better than the main album.

A ruggedly spiritual and earthy yearning for transcendence through song.

Too Close to Heaven · vs · The Waterboys
Soulful+3.3σ

Soulful saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
On My Way to Heaven
4:01
02
Higher in Time
5:03
03
The Ladder
2:59
04
Too Close to Heaven
12:30
05
Good Man Gone
5:14
06
Blues for Your Baby
5:42
07
Custer's Blues
6:00
08
A Home in the Meadow
3:13
09
Tenderfootin'
5:16
10
Lonesome Old Wind
8:20
Moments Worth Waiting For
the slow-burning twelve-minute title track where the piano and fiddle lock into a hypnotic, prayer-like loop
the sudden, joyful burst of gospel harmony that lifts the chorus of On My Way to Heaven
the way Lonesome Old Wind stretches out into an atmospheric, improvisational coda that feels like a physical landscape
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