Watch It Shine: Drawings, Watercolors, and Lyrics - Signed Hardcover

For thirty years, Owen Temple has written songs about the small towns, eccentric characters, and back roads of Texas and the American interior.

Watch It Shine gathers another side of that same practice: the drawings and watercolors he’s made along the way—a roadside motel, a grandfather’s timepiece, beer joints, ancient Hill Country oaks—paired with the lyrics they belong to. The paintings range wider than Texas—waterfalls in Washington, lakeshores in Vermont, the canyons of Zion, the waterways of Louisiana—moments and places that stay with you forever.

A short opening essay frames drawing as a way of paying attention. The rest is what attention found: ordinary things, looked at long enough to begin to shine.

More than seventy paintings and drawings, with the lyrics to forty songs.

The record comes with it.

The first section of this book is every lyric from Closer, Says Love, the album out October 23. Every copy includes a digital download of that record — MP3, WAV, or FLAC — delivered on release day.

Want the record too? Closer, Says Love comes as a signed vinyl LP or a signed CD, and either one pairs with this book — both ship together the week of September 25, about a month before the album is released.

Details

• Hardcover, 11 × 8.5 inches (landscape)
• 176 pages, full color
• ISBN 978-0-9904202-2-4
• El Paisano Press · published September 25, 2026