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| Title: A Rock in the Weary Land Music
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A Rock in the Weary Land |
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Film Description
| Seven years and two Mike Scott solo albums since The Waterboys' previous album, Scott's decision to resuscitate the name of the band that made him famous feels like the decision of a man who has decided to stop running from what he's good at. The second of his solo albums (1997's Still Burning) was infused with the sense of the epic that had always characterised The Waterboys at their best and so this feels like a logical progression. In the Waterboys scheme of things, the records A Rock In The Weary Land has the most in common with are the very early and very late ones. There is little trace of the Irish-folk influence that occupied Scott for much of the early 1990s--this is what Scott once defined himself as "the big music", enormous surging rock ballads, backed by Zeppelin-esque drums, choirs of backing vocalists, strings and what sounds like dozens of guitars. At its peaks, as on the title track and "We Are Jonah", it is vintage Waterboys and, as such, altogether exhilarating. --Andrew Mueller |
Label: Unknown
Studio: Rca
Released: 2000-09-25
DVD release date: 2000-09-25
Format: Audio CD
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