- The Seer (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = The Seer
Type =Album
Artist =Big Country
Released = July, 1986
Recorded = Early 1986
Genre = Alternative Rock
Length = 46:46
Label = Mercury
Producer =Robin Millar
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cyev97y7krdt link]
Last album = "Steeltown "
(1984)
This album = "The Seer"
(1986)
Next album = "Peace in Our Time "
(1988)"The Seer" is the third studio album by Scottish band
Big Country , released in 1986. The album featured very traditional Scottish musical settings, reminiscent of the band's debut album "The Crossing" (1983).Kate Bush worked on the title song in a duet withlead singer andlyricist Stuart Adamson . The album's first single, "Look Away", was Big Country's largest hit in the UK, reaching #7 on the UK "Billboard" charts.The track of "The Red Fox" was based on "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the so called Appin Murder of one Colin Campbel, who was a Tory who was hated by many in Scotland around 1752.Fact|date=June 2007
Track listing
#"Look Away" (Adamson) – 4:23
#"The Seer" (featuringKate Bush ) (Adamson, Watson) – 5:26
#"The Teacher" (Adamson) – 4:05
#"I Walk the Hill" (Adamson, Butler) – 3:30
#"Eiledon" (Adamson)
#"One Great Thing " (Adamson, Butler)
#"Hold the Heart" (Adamson)
#"Remembrance Day" (Adamson)
#"The Red Fox" (Adamson)
#"Sailor" (Adamson)Personnel
Big Country
*Stuart Adamson -guitar , vocals
*Mark Brzezicki - drums, percussion, vocals
*Tony Butler - bass,steel guitar , vocals
*Bruce Watson - guitar,mandolin ,sitar Additional personnel
*Kate Bush - backing vocals
*Kingston Bodham - backing vocals
*Dave Duncan - backing vocals
*June Miles - backing vocals
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