Don Owen

After a celebrated career in which she has released several critically acclaimed albums, toured the world and was praised by the likes of Annie Lennox and Jamie Cullum, Judith Owen - British singer, pianist and songwriter - has reached her creative place of happiness with her new album "Come On & Get It".

Jake Owen is one of the stalwart figures of bro-county, the cheerful good-time music that dominated mainstream country radio during much of the 2010s. Owen emerged before this phenomenon, having his first success in the latter half of the 2000s with such straight-ahead contemporary country songs as "Yee Haw" and "Don't Think I Can't Love You." Owen found his groove in 2011 with Barefoot Blue Jean Night, an album where he brightened his sound, accentuated melody, and ramped up his rhythms, a shift in style and attitude that gave him four successive number one Billboard Country Airplay hits: "Barefoot Blue Jean Night, "Alone with You," "The One That Got Away," and "Anywhere with You." The top of the charts became familiar territory for Owen, a place he remained even after the bro-country era faded, racking up three Billboard Country Airplay number ones at the end of the 2010s with "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)," "Homemade," and "Made for You." Owen's success carried into the next decade with 2021's "Best Thing Since Backroads" and 2022's "Up There Down Here," which he followed with the 2023 album Loose Cannon.

Since his early days as an emerging artist in the mid-aughts, Jake Owen has found a niche in making breezy, carefree music imbued with a spirit of openness and positivity. Like fellow laidback and vibey country acts Kenny Chesney and Little Big Town, Owen loves a song nodding to the great outdoors, particularly if there’s a body of water involved. On his seventh studio outing, Owen mixes such tracks—the playfully titled “On the Boat Again” and the sunburned ballad “Somewhere South with Rum,” among others—with classic party tunes (“Hot Truck Beer”) and breakup numbers (“Solo Solo”). He isn’t so much changing up the formula that’s kept him relevant in the genre for nearly two decades as letting it grow bigger and more mature alongside him.

Since his early days as an emerging artist in the mid-aughts, Jake Owen has found a niche in making breezy, carefree music imbued with a spirit of openness and positivity. Like fellow laidback and vibey country acts Kenny Chesney and Little Big Town, Owen loves a song nodding to the great outdoors, particularly if there’s a body of water involved. On his seventh studio outing, Owen mixes such tracks—the playfully titled “On the Boat Again” and the sunburned ballad “Somewhere South with Rum,” among others—with classic party tunes (“Hot Truck Beer”) and breakup numbers (“Solo Solo”).

A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I

Somewhat strangely, Australian rock veterans Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen had never made an album together until now.