{"id":1164,"date":"2010-09-05T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2015-10-14T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T20:33:33","slug":"owen-temple-dosey-doe-the-woodlands-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/05\/owen-temple-dosey-doe-the-woodlands-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Temple-Dosey Doe-The Woodlands, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Michael Pittman <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 05, 2010 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"Austin\u2019s Owen Temple took the stage at Dosey Doe not long ago with his down home look at the sometimes eccentric lives of some not so everyday Texans. His newest CD called Mountain Home collects the tales of these characters, both past and present into one compelling CD. You\u2019ll recognize some familiar faces in the stellar lineup of musicians who contributed to this project. People like Jamie Wilson, Gordy Quist, Charlie and Will Sexton and Adam Carroll just to name a few.\u00a0 Texas music icon Kimmie Rhodes\u2019 son Gabe produces and performs.<\/p>\n

Cutting his musical teeth in the Presbyterian Church of his small home town in Texas, he was later introduced to songwriting at the Kerrville Folk Festival. A demo recording he made as a student at UT grabbed Lloyd Maines\u2019 attention who went on to produce Temple\u2019s first 3 CDs.<\/p>\n

His influences read like a who\u2019s who in Texas music and his accomplishments include taking first place in the B.W. Stevenson songwriting competition in 2007 and a finalist in Kerrville\u2019s New Folk Competition that same year. 2009\u2019s Dollars and Dimes was voted #1 Americana record on the Euro Americana chart just this last July.<\/p>\n

Most the show was from Mountain Home and Owen wound his songs around and through some of Texas\u2019 favorite traditions and also some of the hard times. I listened to songs like Small Town or Medicine Man and found myself seeing the plains and dusty towns of early Texas and the dreams and struggles of the early Texans.<\/p>\n

The title song Mountain Home is a story of a man that\u2019s served his time and all he wants is to go back to his home in the hill country of Texas. The song seems to blend much of Temple\u2019s country and bluegrass roots into an up-tempo tale of this single moment in this man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Old Sam is an audience participation song about gritty old Sam Houston and how his statue in Huntsville isn\u2019t big enough. Don\u2019t worry, your part isn\u2019t hard and even a voice like mine which sounds little better than a train wreck can sing it. Prince of Peace talks of the inner spirit and the soul of Texas. One Day Closer to Rain is about an optimistic Texas farmer\u2019s determination to tough it out through a bad drought.<\/p>\n

In all the songs and all the stories told there was one central theme that struck me and that was pride. Owen is obviously proud to be a Texan and loves to tell the stories of Texans. So when you get the chance to see him, sit back, have a beer and listen to a Texan talk about Texas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Michael Pittman Sep 05, 2010 at 08:00 PM Austin\u2019s Owen Temple took the stage at Dosey Doe not long ago with his down home look at the sometimes eccentric lives of some not so everyday Texans. His newest CD called Mountain Home collects the tales of these characters, both past and present into… <\/p>\n

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