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Scott Rowley

“There was no master plan apart from we didn’t want to do the Thin Lizzy/Status Quo blues bendy thing”: Bruce Watson on the birth of Big Country, Stuart Adamson’s legacy and the secret to bagpipe guitar

Bruce Watson of Big Country performs live in 2019 .

Bruce Watson is standing in what used to be Kenny’s Music in Dunfermline, one of a chain of music shops across Scotland until it closed in October last year.

Today, the shop floor is a hive of industry again. There are guitars everywhere – too many for one guitar shop – and we’re adding to the chaos, with the guitars of Big Country founding member Watson being set up in the corner for Guitarist’s photoshoot.

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