A Bowling Green native, Marc Owens took up the drums at age 10 after seeing Ring Starr on television.   His first band in various incarnations included Bill Lloyd, Bobby Baldwin and Tommy Hendricks.  He began working as a sound engineer at the Episcopal church.

He studied percussion at Western Kentucky University but quit to tour with Wynlych Penn which as signed to Triangle Talent.  He spent a few years in Nebraska and then returned to Bowling Green in 1980 where he interned at Morningstar Studio and joined the band HiFi (formerly TyBarc) and also Sgt. Arms. 

The next year, Owens started High Street Studio with Billy Smith of Wynlych Penn.  After gigs with a variety of local musicians he joined Foster and Lloyd which opened for Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Restless Heart and Vince Gill. 

In 1989 he closed High Street Studio and ran sound for Picture This and the Kentucky HeadHunters.  He began touring with Clay Walker but after a couple of years returned to Bowling Green to reopen High Street Studio.

He is a member of Hillvue Heights which utilizes his skills as both a drummer and sound engineer.  He is also active in the SonRhea Foundation.

Bands:

• Winfield Cheek Band: (2005-) Winfield Cheek (vocals, banjo, mandolin, percussion, keyboards, guitar), Marc Owens (drums), Graham Hudspeth (guitar), Derek Mitts (guitar)
   
• Clay Walker: Marc Owens (sound - 1993 -), Kyle Frederick (production manager), Byron House (bass) [1992, 1995],
   
• Dennis Robbins - (1992) Marc Owens (tour production manager)
   
• Foster and Lloyd:(1987-1991)  Bill Lloyd, Radney Foster (road band members included: Byron House (bass) [1987-1991], Marc Owens (drums) [1987-1988], Kyle Frederick (guitar), Tommy Johnson, Bruce Bouton, David Dorris (road manager/sound)
   
• Sgt. Arms (1979-1982) Members: Bill Lloyd, David Surface, Marc Owens (drums),  Ernie Raymer, Jeff Watson (sound engineer)
   
• HiFi (1979-1980) original and new wave/pop cover band largely influenced by Cheap Trick with some originals.  [members: Tony Lindsey (vocals, writer), Kyle Frederick (guitar, vocals, writer),  David Dorris (bass, keys, vocals, writer), Kevin Lovelace (drums), Doug Carmen (guitar, keys, vocals, writer)]
   
• Wynlych Penn: Marc Owens (drums), John Waller, Billy Smith and Ed Dansereau, Jeff Watson (sound man)
   
• Slick Rock: lighting/pyrotechnics/drum tech and later sound
   
• First band included: Bill Lloyd, Bobby Baldwin, Tommy Hendricks
   
• Various other gigs with: Ernie Raymer, Andy Stahl, Anthony Kenney, Ed Dansereau, Beverly Smith, and Billy Smith, Tommy Johnson and Tommy Hendricks during the next couple of years, with Chris Carmichael.
  

Discography:

• Tommy Womack: Circus Town (2008) - [Tommy Womack (vocals, various instruments), Bill Lloyd (guitar), Fenner Castner (drums), David Henry (engineer), JD Andrew (engineer), Marc Owens (engineer).]
• Bill Lloyd: Back To Even (2004) - Drum Engineering, Drums
• Tommy Johnson: Echoes From The Past (2003) - [Tommy Johnson (writer, guitar, lead vocals), Chris Carmichael, Mark Hendricks, Marc Owens, Curtis Burch, Arthur Hatfield, Amy Willis, Shane Johnson, Hunter Colson, Jevon and Megan Paschall, Tyrone Dunn, Jessika Henbest, Robert Pinson]
• Bill Lloyd: Slideshow - drums
• Bill Lloyd: All In One Place A Collection (2001) - drums, drum track recording (certain selections)
• Various Artists: Jambodians (2004) - Various Artists - Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Drum Engineering
• Tommy Womack: Circus Town (2002) - Engineer
• Bill Lloyd: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (1999) - Engineer, Drums
• Various Artists: Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the '80s (1997) - drums
• Various Artists: Come and Get It: A Tribute to Badfinger (1996) - drums
• Tommy Johnson: Pockets (1996) - [Tommy Johnson (writer, guitar, bass, banjo, lead vocals), Chris Carmichael (producer, violin, drunk cells, mandolin, guitar, glockenspiel, vocals, co-writer-2 songs), Anthony Crawford (guitars, pedal steel, banjo, bass, harmonica), Robert Johnson (vocals, percussion, co-writer-2 songs), Marc Owens (engineer, producer, drums), Wayne Killius (drums), Kevin Lovelace (drums, percussion), Dave Allen (bass), Jeff Smith (keyboards), Ed Danserau (keyboards), Tony Harrell (keyboards), Alan Klingman (soprano sax), Laura Rupers (clarinet), Sean Thomas (master, graphic design)]
• Edgar O'Neal: Another Chance (1994) - Synthesizer
• Bill Lloyd: Set to Pop (1994) - Drums
• Government Cheese: Government Cheese (1992) - engineered, recorded
• Various Artists: Yuletunes (1991) - Engineer, Drums
• Bill Lloyd: Feeling the Elephant (1987) - drums, Engineer, Mixing, Handclapping
• Government Cheese: Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They’ve Ever Been Before (1985) - engineered, recorded

Affiliations:

• High Street Studio 1982-1989; 1992- present
• Hillvue Heights Church
• SonRhea Foundation

Articles:

• Amplifier: April 2005 cover story - Marc Owens

Websites:

• High St Studio on MySpace

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