Mountain Home (album)
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Mountain Home is the sixth album by American
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 singer/songwriter Owen Temple
Owen Temple
Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

. It was released on April 26, 2011 on El Paisano Records and on April 22, 2011 on Blue Rose Records in the UK and the European Union. The songs on the album focus on small Texas towns and the eccentrics inhabiting them.

Track listing

All songs (Temple
Owen Temple
Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

) except where noted
  1. "Mountain Home" – 2:52
  2. "Desdemona" – 3:07
  3. "Medicine Man" (Temple
    Owen Temple
    Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

    , Adam Carroll, Gordy Quist) – 3:50
  4. "Small Town" – 2:57
  5. "Danger and Good Times" (Temple
    Owen Temple
    Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

    , Adam Carroll, Scott Nolan)– 3:35
  6. "Fall in Love Every Night" – 3:25
  7. "Jacksboro Highway" – 3:41
  8. "Old Sam" (Temple
    Owen Temple
    Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

    , Adam Carroll)– 3:22
  9. "Prince of Peace" (Leon Russell
    Leon Russell
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    , Greg Dempsey)– 3:58
  10. "One Day Closer to Rain" – 2:51

Musicians

  • Owen Temple
    Owen Temple
    Owen Temple is an American folk and country music songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas.Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through...

     - Vocals, Acoustic
    Acoustic guitar
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  • Charlie Sexton
    Charlie Sexton
    Charles Wayne Sexton is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for the 1985 hit Beat's So Lonely and as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002 and since 2009...

     - Baritone guitar, bass
    Bass guitar
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  • Gabriel Rhodes
    Gabriel Rhodes
    Gabriel Rhodes is an American folk and country music musician and producer based in Austin, Texas.Perhaps best known as an electric and acoustic guitar player, Rhodes is a multi-instrumentalist who has also performed and/or recorded playing piano, dobro, bass, theremin, and percussion.His...

     - Acoustic
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

    , Tenor guitar, Banjo
    Banjo
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    , Piano
    Piano
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    , Dobro
  • Rick Richards - Drums
    Drum kit
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    , Percussion
  • Brian Standefer - Cello
    Cello
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  • Bukka Allen - Piano
    Piano
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  • Tommy Spurlock - Pedal steel guitar
  • Adam Carroll - Harmonica
  • Gordy Quist - Harmony vocals
  • Jamie Wilson - Harmony vocals

Production

  • Produced
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     and Engineered by Gabriel Rhodes
    Gabriel Rhodes
    Gabriel Rhodes is an American folk and country music musician and producer based in Austin, Texas.Perhaps best known as an electric and acoustic guitar player, Rhodes is a multi-instrumentalist who has also performed and/or recorded playing piano, dobro, bass, theremin, and percussion.His...

  • Recorded at Sunbird Studios, Austin, Texas
    Austin, Texas
    Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...


Artwork

  • Art Direction/Design by Lance Schriner
  • Photography by James Watkins
  • Photography by Todd V. Wolfson


Releases

year format label catalog #
2011 CD
Compact Disc
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El Paisano Records EPR CD 650182
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