Owen Temple is tagged as: country, texas music, americana, texas, texas country North America is many different places. Of course, there are different states and different provinces, but that’s not really where the big differences happen. The really fundamental distinctions happen between the different regions. One great thing about my job is I get to travel. I travel, mostly on the highways, and frequently from one end of the country to the other. Some of the most interesting travel is when I get to see how the different regions fit together, as they unroll from end to end. Occasionally, if the booking agent is sadistic enough, I get to see three or four different regions in three or four days. I’ve been traveling, playing gigs, and making records for twelve years. I got started playing music in Austin, playing at a dark wooden barroom downtown called O Henry’s Back Forty (now the site of the downtown Hilton). I’ve worked different jobs, lived in Houston, Dallas, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin, and made good friends in all those places. I read a book last year, The Nine Nations of North America, that was recommended to me by a fellow traveler and songwriter, Brian Rung. The author, Joel Garreau, argues that state borders are basically irrelevant and artificial and that North American society can be better understood grouped ... Read More About Owen Temple Biography...  Send Owen Temple ringtones to your cell
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