Songs with

Adam Carroll

Adam & I first met at a music festival in Meridian, Texas, and hit it off. We did songswap shows together for a several years and we started writing on long drives in between shows. He has an eye and an ear for details that others miss. He is the most creative, funniest, kind-hearted person I know, and just about every song we've written was seasoned with laughs so hard the tears came to our eyes. These songs were written in San Marcos, Austin, Little Rock, Galveston, Houston, Dallas, Lockart, and St. Catherine's, Ontario.

Black Diamond

Written together with Scott Nolan · On Owen's Dollars and Dimes

There's nothing sadder than an empty sidecar A train with no engineer

Cornbread and Beans

Written together with Jordan Minor · On Owen's Live at The Saxon Pub

You eat too much candy You just might get sick

Danger and Good Times

Written together with Scott Nolan · On Owen's Mountain Home

Slanted eyebrows looking over his glasses Hand on a hip flicking cigarette ashes

Dollars and Dimes

Written together · On Owen's Dollars and Dimes

As a kid in Arkansawyer, I got my hambone on But those days are gone

Good Behavior

Written together · Recorded by Adam Carroll on Let It Choose You (2014)

I Don't Want to Do What I Do

Written together · On Owen's Dollars and Dimes

This lawyer hole I been crawling in Feels dark and wet and cold

Jacksboro Highway

Written together · On Owen's Mountain Home

Tinsy Eggleston rode a car bomb to Kingdom Come Elmer Holliday laid in a shallow grave, he had to go away

Johnson Grass

Written together with A.J. Roach · On Owen's Stories They Tell

Pour me another my dreams do fly Above the Johnson grass so high

Medicine Man

Written together with Gordy Quist · On Owen's Mountain Home · Also recorded by The Band of Heathens (2011)

All over the land he’s spoken of Wise as a snake, gentle as a dove

Old Child Country Star

Written together with Jordan Minor · Recorded by Adam Carroll on Let It Choose You (2014)

Old Sam

Written together · On Owen's Mountain Home

Timber Ridge, Virginia is a mighty fine place From that soil sprung a leader of the human race

The Dirty South

Written together with Jason Eady

From Live at the Saxon Pub (2013) · © 2009 Owen Temple Music (BMI) / Gypsy Shuffler Music (BMI) / Jason Eady Music (SESAC)