Big Country
Big Country make ringing guitars feel vast and windswept, carrying anthemic melodies with urgency, pride and unmistakable emotional force.
- Featured on Sundown Sessions
- 1 broadcast
- First featured
- 19 June 2024
- Last featured
- Sundown Sessions #3 19 June 2024
- Tracks played
- 1
About Big Country
Big Country emerged from Dunfermline with a guitar sound unlike any of their contemporaries. Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson used effects and interlocking lines to evoke pipes and fiddles, while Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki supplied the powerful rhythm beneath songs built for wide-open spaces.
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From “In a Big Country” and “Fields of Fire” to the darker sweep of The Seer and The Buffalo Skinners, their catalogue combines Scottish musical character, rock momentum and Adamson’s searching, humane songwriting.
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