The Crossing

by Big Country

The Crossing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 July 1983
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:08:41
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Tony Butler, Bruce Watson, Mark Brzezicki, Stuart Adamson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Big Country's phenomenal debut practically invented the soaring, bagpipe-imitating guitar sound that defined 80s Celtic rock. Stuart Adamson鈥檚 incredibly passionate, heroic songwriting drives 'The Crossing' through lush, sweeping arrangements of post-punk energy and deeply traditional Scottish folk melodies. It remains a remarkably triumphant, anthemic, and deeply optimistic classic of Big Music.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, arena rock, guitar-driven, high-energy, british

Tracklist

  1. In A Big Country (4:43)
  2. Inwards (4:34)
  3. Chance (4:25)
  4. A Thousand Stars (3:52)
  5. The Storm (6:21)
  6. Harvest Home (4:19)
  7. Lost Patrol (4:51)
  8. Close Action (4:14)
  9. Fields Of Fire (3:31)
  10. Porrohman (7:51)
  11. Angle Park (4:06)
  12. All Of Us (4:08)
  13. The Crossing (7:07)
  14. Heart And Soul (4:33)

Credits

  • Big Country - primary artist, composed by
  • Tony Butler - bass guitar, vocals
  • Mark Brzezicki - drums, percussion, vocals
  • Will Gosling - engineer
  • Mike Nocito - engineer [assisted by]
  • Steve "Barney" Chase - engineer [assisted by]
  • Bruce Watson - guitar, e-bow, vocals
  • Grant Edwards Management - management
  • Ian Grant - management
  • Paul Cox - photography by
  • Steve Lillywhite - producer
  • Julian Balme - sleeve
  • Christine Beveridge - vocals [additional]
  • Stuart Adamson - vocals, guitar, e-bow, piano

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