Award winning Scottish singer songwriter Dean Owens is widely hailed as one of UK’s finest troubadours, with fans including authors Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin, and BBC broadcasting legend 'Whispering' Bob Harris.
Hard to pin down to a particular genre, his music is a unique blend of Scottish roots and Americana – the unfettered enthusiasm of a rock n roller coupled with the sympathetic delivery of folk’s best storytellers.
With a new album out in 2022, The Sinners is a multi talented band including bass, guitars and trumpet, with Dean’s voice up front – subtle, soulful and powerful. Sinner’s Shrine (recorded with musicians from Calexico) is the latest stop on a lifetime’s journey - from the post industrial heartlands of Scotland to the untrammelled wide-open vistas of the American Southwest – as Dean surrenders to the intoxicating sounds of the US desert states, with themes of love and lust, sinners and saints, the displaced, the wanderers and the border ghosts.