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  • He broke out with a song called "She Left Me for Jesus," a catchy, subversive song that both convincingly mimics Big Country and is delivered with a knowing smirk that Big Country will run like hell from it.

    Radley Balko: Americana, the Beautiful Radley Balko 2011

  • • Apropos Jessica Valenti's excellent article Man up or sit this one out, 10 December, can I recommend that Republican supporters be required to sit down and watch Gregory Peck and, yes, Charlton Heston, in William Wyler's The Big Country, which brilliantly undermines traditional notions of American masculinity.

    Letters: Fairness for all 2011

  • He broke out with a song called "She Left Me for Jesus," a catchy, subversive song that both convincingly mimics Big Country and is delivered with a knowing smirk that Big Country will run like hell from it.

    Radley Balko: Americana, the Beautiful Radley Balko 2011

  • He broke out with a song called "She Left Me for Jesus," a catchy, subversive song that both convincingly mimics Big Country and is delivered with a knowing smirk that Big Country will run like hell from it.

    Radley Balko: Americana, the Beautiful Radley Balko 2011

  • Elsewhere, he edges ever closer to Scots rockers Runrig and Big Country and, also to the Charlie Daniels Band's 1979 fiddle-duelling smash The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

    Seth Lakeman 2010

  • I'm not that familiar with Big Country extended catalog but I've heard for years how good they were and how popular they were outside of the US.

    Lost Classic Album: The Best of Big Country by Big Country Jeff C 2010

  • Singer and guitar player Stuart Adamson had previously been in The Skids before he founded Big Country in 1982 with his friend Bruce Watson, who cleaned the Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet at Rosyth naval base.

    Sounding Like Bagpipes Gordie 2009

  • Singer and guitar player Stuart Adamson had previously been in The Skids before he founded Big Country in 1982 with his friend Bruce Watson, who cleaned the Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet at Rosyth naval base.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Gordie 2009

  • Thanks to Big Country for joining forces with the Four Q team for this contest hence “Four Q Country”, our friends Glen and Janette for their hard work at this event, Janine and Brian for a fantastic video production, and Thom Emery and Ben Lobenstein for their work to make this contest successful.

    You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2008 » July 2008

  • Thanks to Big Country for joining forces with the Four Q team for this contest hence “Four Q Country”, our friends Glen and Janette for their hard work at this event, Janine and Brian for a fantastic video production, and Thom Emery and Ben Lobenstein for their work to make this contest successful.

    You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » America is… 2008

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