Owen Temple - Dollars & Dimes

Produced by Gabriel Rhodes Recorded in Austin, Texas, July 2008 and January 2009 OWEN TEMPLE - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar GABRIEL RHODES - Acoustic Guitar, High Strung Guitar, Electric Guitar, Ukelele, Pump Organ, Piano WILL SEXTON - Bass, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals HUNT SALES - Drums, Percussion, Electric Guitar BRIAN STANDEFER - Cello MICHAEL THOMPSON - Piano ADAM CARROLL - Harmonica Dollars and Dimes, the fifth studio record from Austin, Texas-based songwriter Owen Temple, is a collection of eleven songs about people making their way through hard times in the different regions of North America. The project includes songs written by Owen Temple and co-writes with Adam Carroll, Gordy Quist (of the Band of Heathens), Scott Nolan and others. A concept album focused on regional incarnations of continent-wide drama, Dollars and Dimes was produced by multi-instrumentalist Gabe Rhodes (Billy Joe Shaver, Kimmie Rhodes). Temple's lyrics present eleven portraits of characters and the places they inhabit and are backed by a top notch band made up of Hunt Sales (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) on drums and Will Sexton (Terry Allen, Randy Weeks) on bass, and Rhodes on guitar and keys. _______________________________________ Praise for Owen Temple and previous projects: 'Great lyrics full of insight and plainspoken poetry.' -J. Poet, All Music Guide 'His songs, even the rowdy ones, barrel straight through the roadhouse on the way to better, safer places, like the center of a woman's heart. He has a curl of Townes Van Zandt's spoken-word style of singing, which lifts the sincerity and power of his lyrics.' -Andy Moore, No Depression 'Owen Temple combines his heart and intellect to create music that hits the bull's-eye of the country soul.' -Vintage Guitar Magazine 'a delightful array of lyric driven songs on Two Thousand Miles.' -The9513.com 'Owen Temple writes polished country music, infused with folk traditions. What distinguishes his songs are lyrics that extend the plainspoken stories associated with the genre into a more nuanced psychological terrain.' - Isthmus (Madison, WI)

1) Broken Heart Land
2) Black Diamond
3) Making a Life
4) City of the King
5) Dollars and Dimes
6) Memphis
7) Los Angeles
8) I Don't Want to Do What I Do
9) Quiet Look
10) Golden Age
11) Winnipeg Waltz