We are happy to announce the official release dates of Mountain Home- on Blue Rose Records in the European Union and the United Kingdom on April 22, 2011 and on El Paisano Records in the rest of the world on April 26, 2011.
Mountain Home will be available on CD and in a limited edition pressing of 50 albums on vinyl LP!
You can pre-order CDs and LPs here directly from Owen Temple Music.
With these direct pre-orders, your purchase and your support goes directly to the artists and songwriters. (Thank you!)
All pre-orders receive:
-Immediate digital download of 2 tracks from the album
-CDs will be signed and delivered at least 3 weeks before the official release date
The songs I remember hearing years afterward, that stick with me longest, are songs that have taken me places, that allow you to travel with the story. With this recording, we hoped to continue that tradition, to pass that experience on.
Mountain Home, is a collection of 10 songs about eccentric characters living extraordinary lives in small towns and on the fringes of big cities. We recorded it in Austin with a crew that included Charlie Sexton, Rick Richards, Gabe Rhodes, Gordy Quist, Jamie Wilson, Adam Carroll, Bukka Allen, Brian Standefer, and Tommy Spurlock.
Here’s a preview of 2 songs on the album, and the stories behind them:
MOUNTAIN HOME
I grew up near Mountain Home, a small ranching community in the Texas Hill Country. It’s in a part of the state – called the Edwards Plateau – with steep hillsides and valleys created over thousands of years by streams and rivers cutting through a hard bedrock of limestone.
By the rivers, big cypress trees grow, but it doesn’t rain much, so the hills are covered with one of the hardiest and most stubborn shrubs around – the mountain cedar.
The people that live in those hills are fairly stubborn themselves, from dealing with the unfarmable land – with hard rock inches below the surface – and from dealing with the mountain cedar that covers any available space and consumes every inch of soil it can steal.
In the 1980s, I remember hearing stories about some folks who lived in the hills near us. Hitchhikers on Interstate 10 reported bizarre events near Mountain Home – kidnapping and forced labor – and the sheriff got involved.
When the trial wrapped up, a few people went to prison. A family friend of mine said, “it was like the wild west out here in those days.”
Preview the song “Mountain Home” here.
FREE MP3 download of the song “Mountain Home” here.
FALL IN LOVE EVERY NIGHT
This song is a tribute to songwriters like Willie Nelson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Delbert McClinton, Billy Joe Shaver, the Vaughan Brothers, and the Sexton Brothers. Guys who have spent those late nights and early mornings putting their heart on the line to play the songs for us.
Preview the song “Fall in Love Every Night” here.
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