Greg Owens and the Whiskey Weather

About Greg Owens and the Whiskey Weather

The self-titled debut release by The Whiskey Weather is an amalgamation of styles and genres, but the heart and soul of every song is based on a day in the life of Tennessee denizen, Greg Owens. The self-titled debut release by The Whiskey Weather is an amalgamation of styles and genres, but the heart and soul of every song is based on a day in the life of Tennessee denizen, Greg Owens.

Greg grew up in a small rural town in West Tennessee surrounded by woods and fields. As a child he loved to explore outside. Several years later, his parents took him to Memphis where he discovered Beale Street and the Blues.

“The antithesis between my love for Memphis and my love of rural areas like my country home - plus spending summers in the creeks and mountains surrounding Gatlinburg, certainly influenced my musical journey - from jazz and blues to roots and country.”

“Because I spent most of my younger years in the country, I include a lot of imagery about nature in my writing, and always feel at ease around it.”
But there can be a down side to being raised in a small rural town with “not a lot going on,” and the 26 year old says his teenage years into his early twenties were fraught with rebellion and proverbial teen angst. “’Whiskey Weather’ is a metaphor for how I felt at the time,” he explains. “Drinking too much, dating the wrong girls, pissing off my folks. But I disc