Calexico

Interview: Dean Owens on hooking up with Calexico and beating the lockdown blues

January 26, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Edinburgh’s Dean Owens kicks off the New Year with a Celtic Connections showcase followed by an ambitious schedule of releases recorded with Tucson’s Calexico At the beginning of 2020, the year looked promising for Dean Owens. […]

Calexico “Seasonal Shift” (City Slang, 2020)

December 15, 2020 Jim Finnie 0

Tucson based Calexico has released ‘Seasonal Shift’, which is a cross between the traditional Christmas album with some covers from the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono (guess which song that will be….) and Tom […]

Video: Calexico “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”

November 23, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is a flawless, beautifully produced cover of one of the most striking Christmas songs. Yes, it’s a little early but just take note of those lyrics: “So this is Xmas and what have you done? […]

Calexico announce festive album “Seasonal Shift” – Listen

October 29, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

What a year to release your first Christmas album, even if it’s not actually a Christmas album as such – maybe it’s the best year of all given how much cheering up we all need (and […]

VERSIONS – “Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”

July 27, 2020 Paul Villers 13

Here we are again with “VERSIONS” – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This time around Martin Johnson casts his eye over over ‘Senor (Tales of Yankee […]