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Room to Roam is the fifth studio album by the Waterboys, released by Ensign Records on 17 September 1990 in the United Kingdom. It continued the folk rock sound of 1988's Fisherman's Blues, but was less of a commercial success, reaching #180 on the Billboard Top 200 after its release there in October 1990. Critical response continues to be mixed. AllMusic describes it both as "not quite as [musically] successful" as Fisherman's Blues, but also as a "Celtic rock classic". The front and back covers were designed by Simon Fowler based upon photography by Stefano Giovannini and Sean Jackson. Room to Roam is named after a passage in a George MacDonald book, Phantastes. The cover photography was done by Simon Fowler, and designed by Anni Siggins. The album was recorded at Spiddal House in Galway, where parts of Fisherman's Blues had been recorded.Room to Roam would be the last of the Waterboys' folk-rock sound until the release of Universal Hall in 2003. Fiddler Steve Wickham, who had been a large inspiration for the change to that sound for Fisherman's Blues, left the band shortly before Room to Roam was released. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_to...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
