Colter Wall's Debut Album Out Today

By: May. 12, 2017
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In celebration of the release, Wall will tour throughout 2017, including an upcoming show at New York's Rockwood Music Hall this Monday, May 14 as well as dates with Cody Jinks and Jamestown Revival. See below for details. Additional dates to be announced soon. Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the 11-track album was recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. In addition to Wall on vocals and acoustic guitar and Cobb on acoustic guitar, the album features Chris Powell (Brent Cobb, Jamey Johnson) on drums, Robbie Turner (Waylon Jennings, Chris Stapleton) on pedal steel and Mike Webb (Southern Family) on piano.

Of the album, Wall comments, "I certainly feel like this record is far more mature than the EP in the content of the songs, stories and general sound. This record is a little more personal and most all the stories are true tales of my life." He continues, "Dave's a remarkable producer and equally impressive as a musician. Having both Dave the producer and Dave the player on this record felt like winning the lottery. I feel that way about everyone who played on this record. Kind of surreal really."

A native of Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada, Wall's sound is comprised of resonate and raw baritone vocals, folk and bluegrass style guitar and banjo picking, steady kick-drum stomping, and visually provoking, story telling lyrics. Since debuting in 2015 with the release of his EP, Imaginary Appalachia, Wall has received overwhelming acclaim-Steve Earle declares, "Colter Wall is bar-none the best young singer-songwriter I've seen in twenty years," while Rick Rubin, who recently signed Wall to his American Songs publishing company, proclaims, "Colter sings and writes songs in ways seemingly lost in time. There is an agelessness about him so unusual in someone so young."

Additionally, Rolling Stone selected him as one of "10 New Country Artists You Need To Know," praising, "Sounds Like: The rough-hewn rumblings of a 21 year-old Canadian millennial armed with the weathered voice, writing chops and bushy facial hair of his 1970s country favorites." Moreover, Wall's song, "Sleeping On The Backtop," was recently featured on the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated film, "Hell or High Water." The track has gone on to garner over one million streams on Spotify.

COLTER WALL TRACK LIST

1. Thirteen Silver Dollars (Colter Wall)

2. Codeine Dream (Colter Wall)

3. Me and Big Dave (Colter Wall)

4. Motorcycle (Colter Wall)

5. Kate McCannon (Colter Wall)

6. W.B.'s Talkin (Colter Wall)

7. Snake Mountain Blues (Townes Van Zandt)

8. You Look To Yours (Colter Wall)

9. Transcendent Ramblin' Railroad Blues (Colter Wall)

10. Fraulein (feat. Tyler Childers, traditional folk song)

11. Bald Butte (Colter Wall)

COLTER WALL CONFIRMED TOUR DATES

May 15-New York, NY-Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2

June 4-Atlanta, GA-Park Tavern†

June 6-Birmingham, AL-Saturn†

June 7-Nashville, TN-The Cannery†

June 8-Saxapahaw, NC-Haw River Ballroom†

June 9-Washington, DC-9:30 Club†

June 11-Cleveland, OH-Grog Shop†

June 13-Milwaukee, WI-Shank Hall†

June 14-Minneapolis, MN-Fine Line Music Cafe†

June 15-Chicago, IL-Park West†

July 7-Somerset, KY-Master Musicians Festival

July 23-Greensburg, PA-The Palace

July 28-Sugar Creek, MO-LaBenite Riverfront Park

September 22-23-Franklin, TN-Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival

*appearing with Cody Jinks

†appearing with Jamestown Revival



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