Big Country

Big Country was a rock band from Dunfermline, Scotland, popular in the early to mid 1980s but still releasing material for a cult following as recently as 2004. The band was notable for music heavily accented with tr

Big Country was a rock band from Dunfermline, Scotland, popular in the early to mid 1980s but still releasing material for a cult following as recently as 2004. The band was notable for music heavily accented with traditional Scottish folk and martial music styles, as well as for playing and engineering their guitar sound to resemble the bagpipes, fiddles and other traditional folk instruments.

Canonically composed of Stuart Adamson (formerly of The Skids, vocals, guitar, piano), Mark Brzezicki (drums), Tony Butler (bass guitar), and Bruce Watson (guitar), though a variety of other musicians have been in the band during their long career, including Pete Wishart who joined Runrig and became prominent in the SNP.