Driving to Damascus
Driving to Damascus is the eighth studio album by Scottish rock band Big Country. It was released in August 1999 as both a standard edition and a limited edition digipack, and with bonus tracks in 2002. In the U.S., it was released under a different name, John Wayne's Dream. The limited edition version featured different cover artwork, and included two tracks by Stuart Adamson's alt-country side project, The Raphaels, although there was no indication in the credits that these were not by Big Country.
Driving to Damascus marks the band's last studio album to feature vocalist Stuart Adamson and bassist Tony Butler, and the last studio album until The Journey was released in 2013 with the Alarm vocalist Mike Peters taking over for Adamson and Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes replacing Butler.
The album was re-released on both CD and vinyl format to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary in 2012.
Personnel
- Stuart Adamson – vocals, guitar, mandolin, slide guitar, Moog synthesizer
- Bruce Watson – guitar, mandolin, sitar, slide guitar
- Tony Butler – bass, vocals, vibraphone
- Mark Brzezicki – drums, vocals, programming
- Eddi Reader – backing vocals
- Kirsten Adamson – backing vocals
- Rafe McKenna – backing vocals
- Sally Herbert – string arrangements
- Anne Stephenson – strings
- Claire Orsler – strings
- Dinah Beamish – strings
- Ginni Ball – strings
- Jules Singleton – strings
- Sally Herbert – strings
- Josh Phillips – keyboards
- Rowan Stigner – loops