Big Country
Ze zijn het concert van de week bij Wolgangs Vault. Ga het luisteren want het is echt geweldig. Klik op het plaatje. (wel even registreren maar het is beslist de moeite waard, ze sturen eenmaal per maand een mail die alleen over de muziek zelf gaat bla bla bla). Je weet dan meteen waarop ik vroeger gedanst heb (jaja, ik danste vroeger). Maar het is ook zo triest: de zanger is later in Hawai op een hotelkamer dood aangetroffen. Verteerd door liefdesverdriet en alcohol had hij zich opgehangen, hij was 43. Bruce Watson (zijn gitaar-maat) heeft een nummer geschreven over hem.

Klik hier en je kunt het downloaden of beluisteren.

Je kunt ook even op de speler hier op play drukken, duurt even maar het komt vanzelf.


Returning to their native Scotland to ring in the New Year, Big Country serenades their faithful fans with a cheerful set of Celtic-inspired tunes. Tune in and count down to the New Year with Big Country and all five of our new concerts for this week - all recorded on New Year's Eve. Cheers!

Recorded in their homeland of Scotland, this New Year’s Eve recording at the Glasgow Barrowlands finds Big Country obviously stoked to be home and among friends. The quartet pulls out all the stops for this killer recording, which features nearly all the band’s best and most well known songs from their debut record, The Crossing, which had been released in August of this year and brought the Scottish pop rock band considerable success. The Celtic-inspired record eventually went platinum at home and gold in the US, so at this show the band is fresh and excited, having just experienced their first taste of rock 'n' roll fame while on tour to promote the album.

Six songs into the recording, they stop to drum in the New Year at Midnight, then dive right back into a long list of powerful tunes. Adamson is particularly spot on in terms of his vocals, and the dual guitars of Adamson and Watson are as good as one would expect to hear from a super-group like The Allman Brothers. Highlights include “Inwards,” “Fields Of Fire,” “Harvest Home,” and of course, “In A Big Country,” which was a top 20 hit in the States and their biggest hit off The Crossing album. The show closes appropriately with the sold-out audience ringing in 1984 by singing the festive and nostalgic “Auld Lang Syne.”