Scottish troubadour Dean Owens has been awarded an 'Honorable Mention' by the International Songwriting Competition.
The Nashville based competition is open to songwriters worldwide, across a range of genres, with a panel of industry judges including Tom Waits, Adam Lambert and Rodney Crowell.
Love Prevails (co-written with his longstanding friend/collaborator Will Kimbrough) is the second song from Dean’s highly praised Southern Wind album to be awarded, with the title track winning UK Song of the Year at the 2019 Americana Music Association (UK) Awards.
Will’s own new album - I Like It Down Here - which includes co-writing, singing (and whistling) contributions by Dean, has been attracting fulsome praise and a swathe of five-star reviews since its release in April.
Now Dean is heading out on an English tour, which sees him teaming up with UK Instrumentalist of the Year 2018 Tom Collison and celebrated guitarist Jim Maving to tour as Dean Owens and the Southerners, before returning to Scotland to play some solo shows.
Owens is widely hailed as one of UK’s finest troubadours (with fans including Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and BBC’s Bob Harris).
While never losing his own unique Scottish identity, Dean has had a longstanding love affair with the USA since his early days as the front man of Scotland’s original Americana band, the Felsons. He has recorded four of his seven solo albums there.
Dean will be live at The Stables in Wavendon on June 11.
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