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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

  Owen recently spoke to Brian T. Atkinson of CMT Edge about the new album, Stories They Tell: Owen Temple’s folky masterwork Stories They Tell showcases a

7 Marathons For LIVESTRONG In the next six months, in honor of my heroes and in honor of friends and family who are battling cancer,

In South Austin tonight at The Saxon Pub, my friends The Trishas will be playing at 8pm and me and the band will be playing

Today would have been Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 59th birthday. Here’s a song I wrote for him and a few others who came up in the