General Store (album)

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = General Store | type = studio | artist = Owen Temple | cover = OTGeneralStore.jpg | alt = | released = December 10, 1997 | recorded = Austin, Texas, June 1997 | venue = | studio = | genre = Country | length = 37:55 | label = El Paisano | producer = Lloyd Maines | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Passing Through | next_year = 1999 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Austin Chronicle'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [https://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A74106 link] | noprose=yes}}

'''''General Store''''' is the debut album by American singer/songwriter Owen Temple. It was released in 1997 on El Paisano Records.

==Track listing== <small>All songs (Temple) except where noted</small> #“When I Hit San Antone” - 3:59 #“Me and Maria” - 3:43 #“Tennessee Highway” (Temple, Lendon Lewis) - 3:58 #“Dry Creek” - 3:16 #“Jaded Lover” (Chuck Pyle) - 3:47 #“The Wanna Wanna Bar” - 4:31 #“Mary” - 3:57 #“You Never Can Tell” - 3:00 #“James' Blues” - 3:28 #“If You Called” - 3:45

== Credits == ===Musicians=== * Owen Temple - Acoustic * Lloyd Maines - Electric guitar, Acoustic, Pedal steel, Mandolin, and Dobro * John Inmon - Electric guitar, Acoustic * Michael Tarabay - Bass * Richard Bowden - Fiddle, Mandolin * Rich Brotherton - Mandolin * Riley Osbourn - keyboards * Bob Livingston - Harmonica * Stan Smith - Clarinet * John Treanor - Washboard * Bukka Allen - Accordion * Mark Patterson - drums * Fred Remmert - percussion * Cory Morrow - Vocals on "Jaded Lover" * Pat Green - Vocals on "Jaded Lover" * Paul Lee - Harmony vocals on "When I Hit San Antone", "Tennessee Highway", "Mary", "The Wanna Wanna Bar", "Jaded Lover", and "You Never Can Tell" * Terri Hendrix - Harmony vocals on "If You Called" * Graham Sones - Harmony vocals on "Me and Maria" and "James' Blues"

===Production=== *Produced by Lloyd Maines *Engineered by Fred Remmert *Recorded at Cedar Creek Studios, Austin, Texas<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cedarcreekrecording.com/ |title=Cedar Creek Recording |access-date=2008-01-30 |archive-date=2008-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201222300/http://www.cedarcreekrecording.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Artwork=== *Art Direction/Design by Jennifer Jones *Photography by Stephen L. Clark

== Releases == {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! year !! format !! label !! catalog # |- |1997 || CD || El Paisano Records|| EPR CD 650175 |}

==Cover art==

The cover art depicts Temple standing in front of the Fischer Store, a structure located in Fischer, Texas that dates back to 1902.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitwimberley.com/category/travel/daytrip-fischer.shtml|title=Fischer, Texas, The Wimberley Area - Fischer Store and the Bowling Alley|language=English|accessdate=29 August 2015}}</ref>

== External links == *[https://www.owentemple.com/ Owen Temple website] *[http://www.elpaisanorecords.com/ El Paisano Records website]

== References == {{reflist}}

Category:Owen Temple albums Category:1997 debut albums