Owens now traditional end of year gig in the Traverse, complete with traditional sell out crowd. This year he was accompanied by the Southerners, with Jim Maving on guitar and mandolin and Tom Collison on keyboard and electric bass (sometimes both at once, most impressive!). They were joined for a few numbers by one of Dean's regular partners, Amy Geddes fiddling as fine as ever and adding her excellent vocal talents.
While the set list was packed with many of Owens' best known material there was also some more recent material from his Buffalo Blood collaboration (giving Dean a chance to show what a fine whistler he is) and an excellent interpretation of a Gerry Rafferty classic. Vocally he remains as interesting as ever, proves himself to be a good storyteller between numbers, and has a laugh with his home crowd. The night ended with the crowd joining him in Raining in Glasgow to close an evening that could easily have gone on another hour. Roll on next December.
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