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- Date Released: January 1, 2007
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: Track Records / The Orchard
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They Say...
You may have your doubts, but the three surviving members of Big Country do, indeed, manage to pull off this live album, and in fine style, too. Recorded at the Bristol Thelka on August 18, 2007, on the band's 25th anniversary tour, the disc presents a stripped down Big Country, to be sure -- Bruce Watson's guitar does sound...lonely out there, without Stuart Adamson's instrument, and Tony Butler's lead vocals don't have quite the range that Adamson's singing in its prime displayed. And, yet, they do give a bracing performance that's sort of a minimalist take on the classic Big Country sound, and it is refreshing -- when they launch into "The Teacher," it's hard not to be riveted by the interlocking bass-and-guitar sound; in other places, Watson's guitar has a brittle, crystalline quality, as on "Fragile Thing." But where they need a big sound, they generate it -- in surprisingly lean but broad fashion -- as on "In a Big Country." Butler's singing won this listeners over, backed by Watson and Mark Brzezicki (whose drumming is rock-solid down to the last note). The quality is clean and bright, and there's full annotation as well.
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| 01. |  |
Driving To Damascus |
4:16 |
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| 02. | |
Look Away |
4:41 |
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| 03. | |
The Teacher |
4:37 |
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| 04. | |
Fragile Thing |
4:53 |
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| 05. | |
Wonderland |
5:15 |
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| 06. | |
Alone |
4:29 |
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| 07. | |
Restless Native |
4:30 |
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| 08. | |
Fields of Fire |
5:26 |
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| 09. | |
You Lift Me Up |
5:33 |
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| 10. | |
Chance |
5:31 |
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| 11. | |
In a Big Country |
5:36 |
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11 Total Tracks, 54:47 Total Length
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