Album Notes

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.

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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)