C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Big Country

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
By Dale Merrill — July 16, 2018

On this day, July 15th, in 1983 Big Country's debut album The Crossing was released. By the fall of that year, it was pretty hard to escape hearing the lead off single "In A Big Country" and people commenting "Ooh, the guitars sound like bagpipes" everywhere I went.

What are you listening to tonight?

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