Folk review: Waterboys, Room To Roam

(EMI)

When it followed Fisherman's Blues in 1990, Room to Roam's genial folk meanderings seemed slight and rather silly by comparison. But time has been kind. This reissue - with an additional disc of outtakes - uncovers a trippy self-contained world of music, owing as much to the Beatles as to Planxty.

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Graeme Thomson

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