He Looks a Lot Like You
September 28, 2026
Hal Ketchum, Jamie Lin Wilson and I wrote it on a porch in D’Hanis, Texas, in 2013. Three months later Hal and his daughter Ruby sang it on the Grand Ole Opry.
El Paisano Press · September 25, 2026
Through 2026, every new Owen Temple single has arrived with an original watercolor painted by Owen himself. Watch It Shine collects those paintings and the drawings around them — alongside the lyrics they carry and personal essays on where the songs and pictures came from. Songs and pictures from the same source.
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Hal Ketchum, Jamie Lin Wilson and I wrote it on a porch in D’Hanis, Texas, in 2013. Three months later Hal and his daughter Ruby sang it on the Grand Ole Opry.
Cooler Weather is finally here. (The song, at least.) Time to get out the flannel shirts and cozy up with
Thank you Jerry Jeff, for making music that made me want to make music. ¡Viva Terlingua! came out the year
We love writing songs together. Mostly we end up throwing ideas at each other and laughing so hard we know
The paintings here appear in Watch It Shine — Owen’s hardcover collection of drawings, watercolors, and the lyrics they belong to.
