Big Country - Echoes (Stuart and Bruce, 1981)

When Stuart Adamson first got together with Bruce Watson and started writing songs in May and June of 1981, a room in the Townhill Community Centre in Dunfermline was used as a makeshift studio. There as just a duo and armed with guitars, a drum machine, keyboard and a Tascam 4 track portastudio, they wrote and recorded the first 9 songs that would set the foundation of the new collaboration that would come be known as Big Country.
Harvest Home, Heart and Soul, Angle Park, Wake, Lost Patrol, We Could Laugh, Echoes, The Crossing and Inwards were those first 9 songs written and recorded.
Officially, only Harvest Home, Angle Park and We Could Laugh have been released. (The Crossing 30th Anniversary Deluxe CD)
The full version of We Could Laugh: https://youtu.be/0wLecR0WFOQ )
The Lost Patrol: https://youtu.be/JTNf8eH7Eg8

This is an instrumental that would go on to become the song 'Echoes' from those recordings. It seems experimentation was very much the order of the day and Stuart and Bruce played around with guitars, keyboards and sounds as they started to forge a path forward, finding what would work for them and what could be left behind. Echoes would never go on to be released in any official format, although a later version with lyrics and vocals was also recorded and included on Rarities IV in 2003.

Celebrating 40 years of Big Country - 1981 to 2021.

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