Dean Owens and his various collaborators have explored a variety of ideas, moods and sounds within the overall desert-Americana landscape, building eager anticipation for what the full album project will eventually encompass. It’s been a captivating journey.
Dean Owens Desert Trilogy EPs continues with Sand and Blood, a cinematic and atmospheric second volume featuring members of Calexico and a rewarding duet with Guatemalan singer songwriter Gaby Moreno.
Featuring collaborations with Joey Burns and John Convertino from Calexico, Dean Owens first release in his Desert Trilogy EPs will certainly make the wait for the album even harder to bear.
Watch the incredible new video for ‘New Mexico’, the new single from Scotland’s Dean Owens and Calexico’s Joey Burns & John Convertino…also our Song of the Day.
Among the many highlights of this year’s Celtic Connections is Sinner’s Shrine, a collaboration between Scotland’s Dean Owens and legendary Calexico frontman Joey Burns. Listen to their superb new single ‘New Mexico’.
Let The Day In is a new collaboration between Scotland’s award-winning troubadour Dean Owens and exciting new young talent from Denmark, Oscar Mukherjee.
Watch Dean Owens performing his new song ‘Hope’, written in response to the “nation’s round of applause for the NHS and frontline workers who are working so hard to protect us during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
As well as offering a career snapshot for the faithful, this serves as a handy enticement to newcomers to dig further into Dean Owens’ catalogue and discover what they’ve been missing.
Watch the new video from Dean Owens for Louisville Lip, a tribute to Muhammad Ali and an intensely personal song, as the singer imagines addressing his hero directly, remembering the impact on a kid growing up in the port of Leith.
Buffalo Blood is a US/UK music collective made up of Dean Owens, Neilson Hubbard, Joshua Britt and Audrey Spillman. Watch their video for ‘I’m Alive’ from their upcoming album which will premiere at Celtic Connections.
For the follow-up to 2015’s Into The Sea and his debut for At The Helm, Dean Owens took himself off to Nashville to enlist the services of go-to producer Nielson Hubbard. Southern Wind is an album that fully deserves to take Dean Owens’ career to a higher level.
Southern Wind is the title track from Dean Owens’ upcoming album. Co-written with Will Kimbrough, watch the video which was filmed – by Waltzer Films – in and around Leith, where Dean grew up, and in Scotland’s oldest boxing club.
