Wafer-thin mint? You might think, after the excavations of 2013’s Fisherman’s Box, that Mike Scott had trawled the ocean floor of the Fisherman’s Blues sessions. But, as expansive as it was, the box was restricted to a chronological inspection of Scott’s evolution in the years 1986-1988. Back then, thanks to an early digital process involving Betamax tape, the recording never stopped. Enough was never enough.
The shorthand version of the Fisherman’s Blues story recounts a voyage from the epic rock of Scott’s Big Music toward the sweet pipings of Irish trad. In fact, the music was more cosmopolitan than that, absorbing influences from all over. Fisherman’s Box included a disc on which the Memphis Sanctified Singers rubbed…

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