A startling fine country-folk-rock re-debut
I've been grooving on the this recent CD from Own Temple.From redtunictroll on MOG, the music blogging network:
This Texas-based singer-songwriter has released four albums over the past decade, with a five year work-and-school hiatus between 2002’s “Right Here and Now” and the local release of this disc back in 2007. Like many who travel within the self-contained universe that is Texas country music, he emerges into the national spotlight with a lot more depth and polish than listeners expect to hear in their first brush with an artist. But four albums into his career, Temple’s a memorable songwriter with a country-folk-rock sound that has the sort of sing-a-long middle-American earthiness of John Mellancamp’s hits and Steve Earle’s Guitar Town. Lloyd Maines’ production keeps Temple’s lyrics and voice as the central motor, but guitarist David Grissom is given space to add some hot-shot electric licks.
This album is a real treat for anyone seeking honest country music with folk and rock sides, unaffected by both Nashville’s commercial intentions and alt.country’s anti-Nashville response.
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Links:Wikipedia Entry for Two Thousand Miles
Wikipedia Entry for Owen Temple
- Produced by Lloyd Maines
- Engineered by Cris Burns
- Recorded at Bismeaux Studio, Austin, Texas[1]
Owen Temple Discography
- General Store (1997)
- Passing Through (1999)
- Right Here and Now (2002)
- Two Thousand Miles (2008)
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