Wee Tam and the Big Huge

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Wee Tam and the Big Huge is the fourth album by the Incredible String Band, released as a double LP in November 1968. The two discs were also released separately as Wee Tam and The Big Huge.

The album is considered by many to be, along with the previous The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, the best work the band ever produced. Along with having very developed and poetic lyrics, the album is rich with eclectic and adept instrumentation and arrangement, with around 15 instruments being played consistently throughout the album, mainly by the two band members Robin Williamson and Mike Heron but also supported on a few tracks by Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie.

Williamson explained the title as follows:- "I saw a man with a huge big dog, [and] we knew somebody called Wee Tam, in Edinburgh. It seemed like it was a good idea in terms of one person looking up at the stars - Wee Tam and the Big Huge, just like the vastness of the universe."

Track listing

Disc one (Wee Tam)

Side A

1. "Job's Tears" (Williamson)
2. "Puppies" (Heron)
3. "Beyond the See" (Heron)
4. "The Yellow Snake" (Williamson)
5. "Log Cabin Home in the Sky" (Heron)

Side B

1. "You Get Brighter" (Heron)
2. "The Half-Remarkable Question" (Williamson)
3. "Air" (Heron)
4. "Ducks on a Pond" (Williamson)

Disc two (The Big Huge)

Side A

1. "Maya" (Williamson)
2. "Greatest Friend" (Heron)
3. "The Son of Noah's Brother" (Williamson)
4. "Lordly Nightshade" (Williamson)
5. "The Mountain of God" (Williamson)

Side B

1. "Cousin Caterpillar" (Heron)
2. "The Iron Stone" (Williamson)
3. "Douglas Traherne Harding" (Heron)
4. "The Circle Is Unbroken" (Williamson)