Big Country - Inwards (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, 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)
We Could Laugh (full version): • Big Country - We Could...
The Lost Patrol: • Big Country - The Lost... and
Echoes: • Big Country - Echoes (...
Inwards - the original 1981 recording by Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson and the only known version that contains the lyric difference that was found on all the officially released words packaged with The Crossing - the ones about scouts, stairwells, justice, freedom and pain.
Celebrating 40 years of Big Country - 1981 to 2021.