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Big Country - John Wayne's Dream Audio CD

A fair review of the Big Country "John Wayne's Dream" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Big Country reviews here, or go back to the Big Country tabs.

Big Country Band: Big Country
Title: John Wayne's Dream
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-10-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Driving to Damascus 2: Dive in to Me 3: See You 4: Perfect World 5: Somebody Else 6: Fragile Thing 7: President Slipped and Fell 8: Devil in the Eye 9: Trouble in the Waters 10: Bella 11: Your Spirit to Me 12: Grace 13: I Get Hurt [*] 14: This Bloods for You [*] 15: Loserville [*] 16: John Wayne's Dream [*]

Wonderful way to go...
Solid songwriting and playing from start to finish, including the additional songs not originally appearing on Driving to Damascus. An outstanding final statement by Big Country. Two songs co-written with Ray Davies add extra appeal. Tony Butler did a wonderful job re-mastering the project and Track Records should be proud of such a great project. .


Best of the last
It contains more tracks and has a slightly different mix. This is the DEFINITIVE version of their last studio album. None of the extra tracks are throwaway and some are arguably better than the songs on the original 'Driving to Damascus'. Is it their best album? I think it has more depth with the lyrics than anything Stuart Adamson has done, and he was always a great lyricist (these things being relative). If you don't yet have 'Driving to Damascus', buy this version instead. If you already have DTD, consider getting this one for the extra songs and the slightly different mix courtesy of Tony Butler, the band's bassist. It all works for me. Great melodic guitar rock, some of it very hard-driving while some of it very soft. Great, great lyrics. These are truly Stuart's last artistic statement.


Old Album, New Title
This is a great album, but I wanted to point out that it is just a re-release of "Driving to Damascus" (which is still available) under a new title.


Come Up Screaming
Big Country delivered solid music for 16 years, with only one of those years capturing American radio. It's too bad that another great band failed to make a lasting dent with American audiences. "John Wayne's Dream" (aka Driving To Damascus) is the final epitaph of a great band. Stuart Adamson's suicide in December 2001 put an end to a long career of fruitful recordings. Like Inxs' final offering "Elegantly Wasted", Big Country also ended on a high note. Songs like "Driving To Damascus", "Dive Into Me", "See You", "Perfect World", "Somebody Else", and "Fragile Thing" are some of the best songs this band has done in years. If you haven't heard Big Country in a while you should check this out. It's better than their last three offerings 1995's "Why The Long Face", 1993's "Buffalo Skinners" and 1990's "No Place Like Home".


Best (and last) Big Country studio album

This is a remixed version of that album with 4 extra b-sides released only in the US. The original release of this album was only released overseas and was titled' Driving to Damascus'.
This unfortunately was to be Big Country's last studio album before lead singer/songwriter Stuart Adamson's death.
It's my favorite and possibly most well-rounded album they ever made. It's got the standard, driving Big Country anthems in 'Driving to Damascus', accessible catchy pop songs in 'Somebody Else' and 'See You', and deep
new-age mysticism in 'Your Spirit to me'.
Not only are all the other tracks memorable, they also contain one of BC's enduring songs, 'Fragile Thing',
a very well written bittersweet classic.

But that's not it! You will also get four reallllly good b-side tracks that deserved to be on the album. ' This Blood's for you' and 'John Wayne's Dream' could have been singles.

This is a great album.


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