# Owen Temple

Owen Temple (born September 4, 1976 in Kerrville, Texas) is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.

## Career

Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through. The year 2002 saw the release of the Phil Madeira-produced Right Here and Now.
In 2007 and 2011, Temple was a Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Finalist, and he was the winner of the 2007 B. W. Stevenson Songwriting Competition.
Two Thousand Miles, a fourth studio project, was produced by Maines and was released on January 22, 2008 on El Paisano Records. A review in Allmusic noted "great lyrics full of insight and plainspoken poetry."
A fifth studio album, Dollars and Dimes, was released June 9, 2009. It is a concept album focused on different regions of North America during hard times. In July 2009, the album was the No. 1 record on the Euro Americana Chart. In August 2009, the album was No. 5 on the Freeform American Roots chart.
A sixth studio album, Mountain Home, was released April 26, 2011, and the songs on the album focus on small Texas towns and the eccentrics inhabiting them.
Stories They Tell, a seventh studio album, was released on September 24, 2013.
An eighth studio album, Rings on a Tree, was released September 29, 2023, and its songs, many co-written with Walt Wilkins, Hal Ketchum, and others, comprise a concept album focused on intergenerational interactions.
A book on songwriting, co-authored with Gordy Quist, titled Songfarmer: Writing More and Better Songs was published on November 1, 2015.
Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay, released in early 2016 on Austin-based Eight 30 Records, features Temple's version of Finlay's "Mines of Terlingua."

## Artist discography

* General Store (1997)
* Passing Through (1999)
* Right Here and Now (2002)
* Two Thousand Miles (2008)
* Dollars and Dimes (2009)
* Mountain Home (2011)
* Stories They Tell (2013)
* Rings on a Tree (2023)

## Writer discography

| Year | Artist | Album | Details |
| 2010 | Cory Morrow | Ramblin' Man | Co-Writer (Ramblin' Man) |
| 2011 | Band of Heathens | Top Hat Crown and the Clapmaster's Son | Co-Writer (Medicine Man, Gris Gris Satchel) |
| 2012 | The Trishas | High, Wide & Handsome | Co-Writer (John Wayne Cowboy) |
| 2014 | Kelly Mickwee | You Used to Live Here | Co-Writer (Beautiful Accidents) |
| 2014 | Adam Carroll | Let It Choose You | Co-Writer (Good Behavior, Old Child Country Star) |
| 2015 | Jamie Lin Wilson | Holidays & Wedding Rings | Co-Writer (Here Tonight) |
| 2015 | Walt Wilkins | A Good Ramble | Co-Writer (Days) |
| 2015 | Cory Morrow | The Good Fight | Co-Writer (Winning Hand, All I Need is You) |
| 2015 | Roger Creager | Gulf Coast Time | Writer (Wanna Wanna Bar) |
| 2016 | Walt Wilkins | Streetlight | Co-Writer (Crows, Ask Her to Dance, The Painter By the Lake, Watch It Shine) |
| 2016 | Walt Wilkins and The Mystiqueros | Watch It Shine | Co-Writer (Watch It Shine) |
| 2016 | Paul Cauthen | My Gospel | Co-Writer (Be There Soon, My Gospel) |
| 2017 | Band of Heathens | Duende | Co-Writer (Trouble Came Early, Cracking the Code) |
| 2017 | Lola & The Huntsmen | Don't Get Lonely | Co-Writer (Don't Get Lonely, Reno) |
| 2018 | Courtney Patton | What It's Like to Fly Alone | Writer (Gold Standard) |
| 2021 | Charlie and the Regrets | Walking Away | Writer (One Day Closer to Rain) |
| 2021 | Walt Wilkins | Pedernales | Co-Writer (My Friends, Christmas Whiskey, One True Beautiful Thing) |
| 2022 | Clay McClinton | Age Like Wine | Co-Writer (Amber and Bones, Homegrown, Cities Made of Gold, Country Girl, It's Like Love, Waste of Time) |
| 2022 | Kelley Mickwee | Single | Co-Writer (Gold Standard) |
| 2022 | Drew Kennedy | Marathon | Writer (Watch It Shine) |
| 2023 | B.R. Lively | People | Co-Writer (Phantom Pain) |
| 2024 | Gretchen Peters | If It Weren't for You | Co-Writer (Watch It Shine) |
| 2024 | Kelley Mickwee | Everything Beautiful | Co-Writer (Force of Nature) |
| 2025 | Walt Wilkins & The Ramble | Through the Stars | Co-Writer (Walk This World) |