One of Scotland’s foremost “Americana” acts, Dean Owens unveils his latest album, Southern Wind, at a showcase concert this Friday in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the Celtic Connections Festival. Recorded in Nashville with a crack team of American musicians […]
“It’s misery at The Glad Cafe,” quipped Dean Owens, as he described the contents of Run Boy Run, a song about slavery. It’s one of the songs Owens has revitalised from a book, The Penguin Book Of American Folk Songs, […]
Right now the name of Roseanne Reid will only be familiar to fans of folk roots music in Scotland although she has captured the attention of none other than Steve Earle through her regular attendances at his songwriting boot camp. […]
Southern Fried, the premier Scottish festival of Americana roots music celebrated its tenth birthday at the tail end of July. Held annually in the fair city of Perth, sometimes called the gateway to the Highlands, it’s what one might call, […]
Still mining the rich vein of country duetting, My Darling Clementine have grown in stature since the release of their first album, How Do You Plead, back in 2011. Essentially a homage to the classic duets of George Jones and […]
The course of true love has never run smoothly and never more so than in Country music. Back in the 1920’s The Carter Family were singing of a married woman rocking a cradle and crying in Single Girl, Married Girl […]
Nathan Bell’s album I Don’t Do This For Love, I Do This For Love, released midway through 2016, featured heavily in many year end top ten lists, for a virtual unknown this side of the water an impressive task. Bell […]
The Other Half is a collaboration between star-crossed lovers’ country duet My Darling Clementine (Lou Dalgleish and Michael Weston King) and crime writer Mark Billingham that exists as an album and a stage show incorporating spoken word, forlorn country songs […]
How best to support your favourite acts and artists? I’m sure that No Depression readers do more than their fair share, buying records, going to gigs, funding Kickstarters and such. Now music promoter Rob Ellen, who is based in the […]
Time then for Daniel Meade, Glasgow’s own hillbilly hell raiser, to raise the bar with his third official release and the first album to feature his wingmen, The Flying Mules. The Mules (Meade – guitar and piano, Lloyd Reid – […]
