Bruce Watson

Bruce Watson was the founding member of the Scottish rock band Big Country, alongside the now deceased ex-Skid, Stuart Adamson. In addition to the many co-writes with Adamson, Bruce's role in the band was primarily as a supporting guitarist and he typically contributed rhythmic textures and repetitive melodic fills which underpinned verses, contrasting with Stuart Adamson's more straightforward chord work in these sections.

During solos, as Adamson played the main melody, Watson would often contribute a counter-melody. Watson also played slide guitar on some of the band's early material, including "Rain Dance" and "Red Fox." Watson is also an accomplished mandolin player, and put this skill to use on several of Big Country's more country and western-influenced songs, including "Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)".

Since Adamson’s death in 2001, Bruce Watson has continued to fly the flag for Big Country, keen to uphold the memory and legacy of the band. He has taken to playing many of Adamson's lead guitar parts live, and on more recent tours his son, Jamie, fulfils Bruce’s old role. They remain a popular live act.

Bruce is also a solo acoustic artist who will going out to promote the forthcoming New Modern published official biography of Big Country’s former frontman - Stay Alive: the life and death of Stuart Adamson