You’ve been warned earlier than round these components, however now we now have affirmation. Colter Wall has a brand new album on the best way referred to as Recollections and Empties that can be launched on November 14th by way of LaHonda Information, and this factor goes to be COUNTRY. Not that you just needed to fear about Colter Wall venturing into the world of synth pop or something, however he’s all the time been extra distinctly a cowboy & Western artist along with his recorded materials.
On this new album although, Colter Wall is claimed to be “carrying the torch of conventional nation music’s legacy past Nashville’s industrial affect” and is releasing a “assortment of consuming songs and blue collar tales is tailored for the honky tonks, barrooms, porches, and pickups it would quickly be inhabiting—all deeply impressed by that Seventies period of nation music that also permeates early breakfasts on the diner earlier than work and late Saturday nights that bleed into Sunday mornings.”
Nicely that every one seems like music to our ears. Co-produced by Colter Wall and his common studio collaborator Patrick Lyons, Recollections and Empties was recorded within the legendary RCA Studio A in Nashville the place so many legendary traditional nation albums have been minimize. The studio musicians have been made up of members of Colter’s backing band the Scary Prairie Boys.
And never solely are we to count on a distinctly conventional nation sound from this new album, Colter Wall seems to have one thing to say in regards to the state of nation music with this mission. The opening tune from the album referred to as “1,800 Miles Away” (to be launched at midnight Japanese, 9/26) says,
“I don’t know what you assume you’ve been informed.
If I ever was on the market, I by no means bought.
It’s quick on flashing lights and rhinestone garments,
1800 miles from Music Row.
It’s Tyson songs on the fiddle and guitar.
And the pedal metal man drives an actual imply bar.
You received’t hear it in your radio.
It’s 1800 miles from Music Row.”
One other attention-grabbing be aware in regards to the album is that Colter Wall wrote all of the songs himself, save for a tribute to Ian Tyson to conclude the album in “Summer season Wages.” Although Colter all the time features a few songs he wrote on data, he’s additionally been simply as inclined to cowl outdated traditionals and Western tunes as properly. On this one, it’s his intention to place his personal stamp on Western music’s extra well-liked cousin.
With so many desirous to make “nation” albums nowadays, Colter Wall is one interloper the nation music neighborhood can be more than pleased to soak up.
Recollections and Empties is now out there for pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
1. “1800 Miles” – 3:24 (Colter Wall)
2. “My Current Simply Will get Previous Me” – 3:04 (Colter Wall)
3. “Like The Hills” – 2:21 (Colter Wall)
4. “Recollections and Empties” – 3:22 (Colter Wall)
5. “It’s Getting So (That A Man Can’t Go Into City Simply To Have Him A Drink)” – 2:46 (Colter Wall)
6. “Dwelling By The Hour” – 2:29 (Colter Wall)
7. “4/4 Time” – 4:59 (Colter Wall)
8. “The Longer You Maintain On” – 2:50 (Colter Wall)
9. “Again To Me” – 3:01 (Colter Wall)
10. “Summer season Wages” – 4:32 (Ian Tyson)
