Dean Owens

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Lyndon Bolton

June 9, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 1

When compiling my ‘Top Ten Ever’ list I spent surprisingly little time ruminating how and what to include. Instead, I just came up with ten albums that for various reasons have made a deep impression on […]

Video: Dean Owens “We Need Us”

April 1, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Dean Owens has released a new single to show support and solidarity with the dispossessed and displaced people of Ukraine. The world has been left reeling by recent events but, in the face of a humanitarian […]

Live review: Dean Owens & The Sinners + Kirsten Adamson, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 13th March 2022

March 18, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

With his new album, ‘Sinner’s Shrine’, described as… “Riding high in the charts…with a bullet, Elton John’s shitting himself,” Dean Owens was clearly enjoying being back on stage, at long last. ‘Sinner’s Shrine’, recorded with Calexico […]

Dean Owens “Sinner’s Shrine”

February 14, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0

Leith meets Tucson in a propitious if sometimes lyrically obscure combination. Dean Owens is no stranger to these pages and no stranger to being highly praised within them. His live shows have been praised as, ‘sunshine […]

Interview: Dean Owens and Joey Burns on the recording of “Sinner’s Shrine” – The Crystal Frontier meets the Water of Leith

February 11, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

AUK’s 2021 winner of Best UK Act, Scotland’s Dean Owens, and Calexico’s Joey Burns talk of how they bonded in a sun blasted Tucson, cemented their friendship in a wintry Edinburgh, and went on to record […]

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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0

To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]

Paperback Riders: Johnny Rogan “The Byrds Timeless Flight” and “Timeless Flight Revisited”

May 29, 2026 0

There are rock biographies, and then there are monuments. Johnny Rogan’s Timeless Flight: The Definitive Biography of the Byrds, first published in 1981, belongs firmly in the latter category Rogan was a twenty-something and still at […]

Classic Clips: Richmond Fontaine and Amy Boone “Post to Wire” – Live in-store at Rough Trade East, London – 14th September 2011

May 29, 2026 0

I guess pretty much everyone reading this on Americana UK is familiar with and, judging by the plaudits heaped upon them, deeply enamoured with The Delines; the dark twisted tales of the underbelly of the American […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Lyndon Bolton

Video: Dean Owens “We Need Us”

Live review: Dean Owens & The Sinners + Kirsten Adamson, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 13th March 2022

Dean Owens “Sinner’s Shrine”

Interview: Dean Owens and Joey Burns on the recording of “Sinner’s Shrine” – The Crystal Frontier meets the Water of Leith

Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

Paperback Riders: Johnny Rogan “The Byrds Timeless Flight” and “Timeless Flight Revisited”

Classic Clips: Richmond Fontaine and Amy Boone “Post to Wire” – Live in-store at Rough Trade East, London – 14th September 2011

Great Lake Swimmers “Caught Light”

Live Review: Sweet Sounds of the South, Riverside Studios, London – 16th May 2026