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Owen Temple – Mountain Home. Download “Mountain Home” (mp3). Stream to the entire album at Bandcamp. Owen Temple’s sixth album presents folk music with West Texas countrified accompaniments – a placid combination of steel pedal, dobro, accordion, organ, and lots of acoustic guitar. The earnest songs are mostly written about Texas history and folklore. As the song “Small Town” explains, “stuff you don’t know goes down in a small town.” These nuggets of musical tales capture a lot of that “stuff” with a unique Lone Star style.
Mountain Home is the sixth studio album from Austin based singer-songwriter Owen Temple, the Gabe Rhodes produced album includes contributions and co-writes from Scott Nolan, Adam Carroll and The Band of Heathens Gordy Quist, ten impressionistic tales about Texas, the people, the places, the history, “With my songs I'm trying to get down some of the stories of this place” – a fine job of it he makes too. Vinyl, CD, Download, pay your money make your choice . Owen Temple - Desdemona Homepage [...]
Country, folk, bluegrass and blues from talented Texas songsmith Owen Temple’s last album, Dollars and Dimes , took its concept from the socio-political ideas of Joel Garreau’s The Nine Nations of North America . Temple wrote songs that explored the regional ties of work and cultural belief that often transcend physical geography, zeroing in on the life issues that bind people together. With his newest songs, he’s still thinking about people, but individuals this time, catching them as a sociologist would in situations that [...]
I mentioned Owen Temple's upcoming album Mountain Home earlier today in my ReviewShine feature. That album contains a song called "Old Sam" about the great Tennessee and Texas statesman Sam Houston ( wiki ). That song got me thinking about Scott Miller's "Say Ho" ...also about Sam Houston. I was listening to those songs and decided to do some research on Houston. As it turns out, today is his birthday. He was born on March 2, 1793. Owen Temple: Old Sam ( Buy Album [...]
Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday." There are Several albums that I'm digging right now, and I need to catch up to the massive amounts of music in my inbox... so let's briefly blast through a handful of artists today. Folk-Worn Prose is the sophomore release from Los Angeles' Shaun Cromwell . Cromwell is [...]
new long_one from Texas based Americana-he-singer the OWEN TEMPLE has taken a leak. MOUNTAIN HOME D.O.B : April 26, 2011 Label : Bue Rose Tracklist : 1. Mountain Home 2. Desdemona 3. Medicine Man 4. Small Town 5. Danger and Good Times 6. Fall In Love Every Night 7. Jacksboro Highway 8. Old Sam 9. Prince of Peace 10. One Day Closer to Rain via : Filesonic wotyougot
Owen Temple has announced the release of his new record Mountain Home . It was recorded in and is clearly influenced by Austin, Texas. Players and co-writers include folks like Charlie Sexton, Rick Richards, Gabe Rhodes, Gordy Quist, Jamie Wilson, Adam Carroll, Bukka Allen, Brian Standefer, and Tommy Spurlock. Owen is honest and forthright in his stated love and goal of continuing the storytelling songwriting of folks like Willie Nelson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Delbert McClinton, Billy Joe Shaver, the Vaughan Brothers, and the Sexton Brothers. This record will go a long way to making [...]
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Dollars and Dimes est un concept-album sur l'Amérique des laissés pour compte, chaque chanson prenant place dans une région différente des Etats-Unis. L'auteur de ce projet ambitieux est Owen Temple, un songwriter dans la tradition de Townes Van Zandt qui comptait jusque là 4 albums à son compteur.On navigue du Middle West et sa déprime industrielle (Broken Heart Land) aux villes minières des
I honestly don't know where I've been on the new Owen Temple record. His criteria for appearance on Songs:Illinois are many ("the force is strong with this one"): he's an Austin singer songwriter with debts to Guy Clark, Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt, he is #1 on the Euro Americana chart, and he's net savvy enough to give away his new record for free. "Golden Age" is a song about his old Austin stomping grounds (O Henry’s Back Forty) and its demise when the new Hilton went up downtown. Usually you've got to [...]
Soulful country-folk-rock travelogue of today’s North America Austinite Owen Temple takes inspiration for his fifth album from his extensive travels as a touring musician, and from Joel Garreau’s book The Nine Nations of North America . Garraeu argues that national and state borders are mere geographical lines that fail to surround populations of like interests and lives. He proposes nine regions, such as Ecotopia (the northwest coast), Breadbasket (the midwest US and Canada), and Foundry (the industrial northeast) that are held together [...]
Eric NealIf you're done with your taxes (unlike, say, me) there are a couple of shows worth venturing out for this deadline Wednesday...Local singer/songwriter Eric Neal headlines a nice local bill at... Continue reading "Gig Alerts: Eric Neal and Anna Thomas at Dada, Owen Temple and Adam Carroll at Dan's Silverleaf" >
No, even though i have been talkin' a little about books lately, this post is not about the Cormac McCarthy novel. There are countless songs that have been written about/inspired by that mixture of gravel, cement, and tar we like to call The Road . Rather than save it for last, i'm gonna start with the song that inspired this post. It could be construed as too literal, but Jerry Jeff was best at being blunt. [...]
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