BIG COUNTRY'S BAGPIPE CURSE!
Things were swimming along in a British synthetic haze in the fall of ’82 when there issued this sound over the radio waves. It sounded familiar, warm, twangy and electric...oh, right—a guitar! With the demanding opening thunder of “Fields Of Fire,” Big Country staked another powerful claim for the vitality of rock ’n’ roll, and were entered in the Sincerity Sweepstakes (you know—the holy trinity of U2, Big Country and the Alarm, etc., etc., etc.).
BIG COUNTRY'S BAGPIPE CURSE!
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Karen Schlosberg
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Things were swimming along in a British synthetic haze in the fall of ’82 when there issued this sound over the radio waves. It sounded familiar, warm, twangy and electric...oh, right—a guitar!
With the demanding opening thunder of “Fields Of Fire,” Big Country staked another powerful claim for the vitality of rock ’n’ roll, and were entered in the Sincerity Sweepstakes (you know—the holy trinity of U2, Big Country and the Alarm, etc., etc., etc.).
The half-Scottish, half-English quartet have a strong sense of self-respect and faith in their own intuition, which has led them to some less-than-overtlycommercial career moves: Following the success of their first LP, The Crossing (which landed their first single, “In A Big Country,” in the U.S. Top 20), they followed that up not with an LP, but an EP of some new and some unreleased album tracks, Wonderland, then released the full-length Steeltown in 1984.