Dean Owens

Live Review: Scotland sings Nanci Griffith @Perth Southern Fried Festival – Perth, 30th July 2022

August 9, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

It almost felt like the good old times. A storied concert in Perth’s spectacular concert hall, followed by a late night gig in the revamped Perth Theatre – Southern Fried was back. It wasn’t however the […]

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 […]

Jenny Gillespie Mason “Medicine Of Light” – a healing balm

July 14, 2026 0

On her new album In the Safety of the Light, Jenny Gillespie Mason is turning back to her musical roots. After a decade pursuing psychedelic pop, jazz, and electronic textures through her project Sis (and most […]

Video: Alex Southey “Green Sunday” – a constant giving-in

July 14, 2026 0

Vancouver-born, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Alex Southey has released an absorbing new single. Green Sunday opens with gently insistent guitar before lush layers are introduced and, halfway through, percussion is ushered in, giving the song a greater urgency. […]

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 […]