Announcements 2/14/06: I've closed the favorite song and favorite album polls. There will be no further updates to my Big Country pages.
			This is a web site site devoted to the Scottish rock band Big Country. Trying to describe their music and capture its essence with words is a difficult task. It is rock music, infused with the sounds and culture of Scotland. It can simultaneously evoke images of epic drama and pictures of everyday lives. Ultimately, it is best described by Stuart Adamson, Big Country's (deceased) primary singer and songwriter: The music I felt wasn't like the music I had grown up hearing, or rather, not like any one of them. It was all of them jumbled up and drawn into something I could understand as mine. I found I could play this music and connect the guitar directly to my heart. I found others who could make the same connection, who could see the music as well as play it. The sound made pictures. It spread out wide landscapes. Great dramas were played out under its turbulent skies. There was romance and reality, truth and dare. People being people, no heroes - just you and me, like it always is. The music told stories, little stories. Lands were not conquered, treasure was left in the tombs, the magic was in the everyday. We learned how we are together and how we come apart. Life happens. This web site is named Eiledon because it is the song which, I think, best captures all of the elements that define Big Country (see the lyrics). I have a running pair of polls, asking fans to name their favorite songs and albums. Aside from those polls, this site is no longer active. There are several other excellent sites about Big Country, including the official band site. This site was formerly focused on the Big Country email discussion list that I maintained. That list was retired in October 2000 due to a catastrophic failure of my old ISP's list software (the commonly available web-based discussion forums and lists available now didn't exist back then). The current list is the Yahoo Big Country group. You can view the Email List page for a brief history of the old list.