Dean Owens

Live Review: Dean Owens & The Southerners – Green Note, London, 1st September 2021

September 8, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Dean Owens is not given to exaggeration, so if opening a show with “We’re here, it’s a miracle,” might have raised a few eyebrows pre-pandemic, tonight he was bang on the button. For his first show […]

Dean Owens “The Hopeless Ghosts (Featuring Grant-Lee Phillips)”

September 1, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

Dean Owens releases a new video from his third and final ‘Desert Trilogy EP (Ghosts)’. ‘The Hopeless Ghosts’ is the latest chapter in Owens’ remarkable transatlantic collaboration with the undisputed masters of desert-noir, Calexico. To cap […]

Dean Owens, Soundhouse Spotlight Sessions at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 19th April 2021

April 29, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

As the possibility of live gigs returning gets tantalisingly closer, reviewers here at AUK are still stuck on the couch watching live streams beamed in from all over. Tonight’s entertainment came from Edinburgh, from The Traverse […]

Dean Owens (feat. Joey Burns, John Convertino, Jacob Valenzuela) “New Mexico”

February 11, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Beginning on 5th March, Scottish singer songwriter Dean Owens will release a series of EPs as a prelude to his next full-length album, ‘Sinner’s Shrine’, recorded with musicians from Calexico. The EPs will include a song […]

Festival Review: Celtic Connections,15th January-2nd February 2021

February 9, 2021 Paul Kerr 3

As we waltzed oh so carefully into 2021, Celtic Connections, Scotland’s annual winter celebration of worldwide roots music, was the first major festival to accept the inevitable and move to a digital platform. In 2020, around […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 3

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]