Bio

Throughout Colter Wall’s career, the Saskatchewan-raised songwriter’s gravelly, baritone voice has been a soundtrack for hard work, getting through, and good times despite it all for fans worldwide. With his upcoming LP, Memories and Empties—out November 14th on La Honda Records and RCA Records—Wall’s delivery and intention may have never been more straightforward. Carrying the torch of traditional country music’s legacy beyond Nashville’s commercial influence, Memories and Empties was recorded at Music City’s hallowed RCA Studio A in the same room that Waylon Jennings cut Honky Tonk Heroes, Merle Haggard and The Strangers cut parts of Hag, and Willie Nelson recorded countless tunes. Memories and Empties adds on to Studio A's history, highlighting the disparity between the Nashville of then and now.

Produced by Wall and his trusted on-stage and in-studio collaborator Pat Lyons, joined by their Scary Prairie Boys touring band brothers, this new collection of drinking songs and blue collar stories is tailor-made for the honky tonks, barrooms, porches, and pickups it will soon be inhabiting—all deeply inspired by that 1970s era of country music that still permeates early breakfasts at the diner before work and late Saturday nights that bleed into Sunday mornings. A record of relationships, the throughline of this 10-song collection is the exploration of the many ways in which humans are connecting: whether that be to people, to the natural world, to time, to God.

And in a time when critics and industry collide about what country music sounds like, Wall leaves no room for interpretation. Though his songs might not be heard on today's country radio stations, they are as country as country can be.