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A springtime Texas hill country edition of Backyard Biergarten with my co-host J.P. Rankin.  J.P. is a cartoonist – known in publications as “The Cartoon

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tbf_FO2YVvA%3Frel%3D0 From the Texas hill country, right in between Kerrville and Ingram, we bring you the lucky 13th episode of Backyard Biergarten – co-hosted by

Thanks to my buddy Gordy Quist for the encouragement at the Austin Marathon last month- he had a banana and a mimosa for me at

Should you go with acid washed or stone washed at #SXSW? Tough call. SXSW in Austin is a time for looking your best! Songwriters need to

On the weekend of December 5-7, Gordy Quist and Owen Temple will host Songfarmer, a songwriting retreat on Lake Travis in the beautiful hill country around

An overcast, snow-infused Kansas City, Missouri edition of Backyard Biergarten…   Looking out over downtown, playing a song about an epic card game written by

Episode 8 of Backyard Biergarten comes to you from Luling, Texas. It was a cold and miserable day, so we decided, sensibly, to move the

For the seventh episode in the continuing video series, Backyard Biergarten, in which we drink a beer and play a song in a backyard, we

The sixth episode in the continuing video series, Backyard Biergarten, in which we drink a beer and play a song in a backyard, is happening

In Walden, Thoreau wrote that “men have become the tools of their tools” Facebook is a tool- a beautiful way of communicating and sharing, but

I started the new year off right- by watching the great Townes Van Zandt documentary “Be Here to Love Me” and by driving the 333,001st mile

Hyperbolium posted another thoughtful review of the new album ‘Stories They Tell’  Owen Temple is a singer-songwriter with a sociologist’s eye. His third collaboration with