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This is my country, these are my reasons
Deacon Blue, says Ricky Ross, have always been “the uncoolest band on the block”. That may be overstating things, but it’s probably true that they have never been especially fashionable. Still, if you’re not in fashion, you can’t go out of fashion. While other, more hotly tipped acts have come and gone, Deacon Blue are still with us after four decades. Theirs is a long, slow release of success: the hits have achieved the status of modern-day, singalong standards, and are never long absent from the airwaves.
Ross is the musical engine and the driving spirit of Deacon Blue, the composer and rasping singer of an endless run of belters:, , , , , , – and, of course, that alternative Scottish national anthem,. But he is more than that, too: an eloquent campaigner for Scottish independence, a radio DJ with a passion for country music, and the owner of an unusually lively and reflective mind.
