The Waterboys' Mike Scott Goes For Brogue On 'An Appointment With Mr. Yeats'

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In what stands as one of the boldest, most ambitious projects of his storied career, Waterboys auteur Mike Scott has collaborated, figuratively speaking, with the legendary Irish poet W.B. Yeats on the 14 songs of An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, due out on Proper American on March 26, 2013.

"I love the way Yeats' poems lend themselves to music," says Scott. "But I also like Yeats as a guy — a dandified, opinionated, larger-than-life character. I feel a kinship to him. My purpose isn't to treat Yeats as a museum piece, but to connect with the soul of the poems — as they appear to me — then go wherever the music in my head suggests, and that means some surprising places." Scott will bring the Waterboys to New York's Town Hall in March for the American premiere of this provocative song cycle uniting a pair of artists separated by a century. // Continue to the full article