GLASGOW country duo Raintown have a new audience in mind for their songs – their newborn daughter.

The couple have resumed gigging again after taking a few months off while singer Claire gave birth to Alba Rose.

And as Paul and Claire, who’ve previously been picked to support the likes of Runrig and Wet Wet Wet, take care of their first child, they’ve found it has changed their music too.

“We’re actually writing a song now, specifically for her naming day, and we’re looking forward to people hearing that one,” says Paul.

“Having a child has changed how we look at the world a lot and has given us a lot of writing material too, because previously there are things that would have went by us, and that affects how you write. You realise the slightest thing could affect your child and that means a radical change in how we write, because of all these things that we are thinking about now.”

The couple have already brought their wee one to a couple of shows with them, although she will be staying at a relative’s when they headline King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on Friday, June 2. They’re finding that looking after a baby is also meaning they’re making the most of their music when they can.

“Someone said to us that things would be harder for the band with a child, but what it has done is totally focus us,” says Paul.

“The time we have with Alba Rose is 100% with her, and the time we devote to Raintown is also 100% focused on getting things done. There’s been more done in the past six months than in the whole year before that, because you have to make the most of every single opportunity and that has been borne out with the tour, and supporting Deacon Blue.”

That support slot with Ricky Ross and company takes place tonight in Montrose at the Montrose Music Festival. Given the band are named after Deacon Blue’s seminal debut album, they’re understandably excited about the show.

“Being on the same bill as them is high up there on the list of things that we have always really wanted to do,” adds Paul.

“I actually stole my uncle’s Raintown cassette tape when I was younger! I’d been given a personal stereo by him and I borrowed the album from him, and I don’t think I ever gave it back. It’s still an album I go back to often.”

Paul and Claire have already released two albums, visited Nashville to perform at the Country Music Association Festival on a couple of occasions and performed at all of the Country 2 Country events that have taken place in Glasgow over the past few years.

Paul believes the Scottish country and Americana scene is flourishing, with a local flavour being added to the mix.

“Country music now is almost like rock n’ roll music was in the late 50s in the UK, where some people still question why people from Scotland are doing an American style of music,” he says.

“But we are singing about what we know about, and the country comes from the influences and the storytelling, and to some extent the musicality that’s on the albums. We’re not up there talking about riding around in big trucks or anything like that, we’re staying away from terminology like that. It’s definitely a growing scene, and the success of the Shires or Ward Thomas is bringing it more to the forefront.”

Making music like this is no surprise for the duo, given they were both raised on a diet of country classics. Whatever the country, it all goes back to storytelling for Paul.

“My family loved Elvis and Johnny Cash and Patsy Clyne, so I heard that growing up,” recalls Paul.

“I remember my dad having an album growing up and it was easy to imagine all the stories because of the lyrics. That’s always stuck with both me and Claire, and when we started writing we just gravitated towards that style of storytelling. I actually had a Patsy Clyne CD in my car when I’d just met Claire. She was changing the CD once and went ‘oh, I love Patsy Clyne’ and that started the whole conversation about music.

“There’s a real synergy between the Glasgow working class mentality and that hard living, hard working philosophy in country music. A lot of it is centred around family, and that is still prevalent in Glasgow today.”

Raintown, King Tut’s, Friday June 2, £14, 8.30pm