Memories and Empties Colter Wall

• 1 1800 Miles 03:27
• 2 My Present Just Gets Past Me 03:06
• 3 Like the Hills 02:24
• 4 Memories and Empties 03:22
• 5 It's Getting So (That a Man Can't Go into Town Just to Have Him a Drink) 02:47
• 6 Living by the Hour 02:31
• 7 4/4 Time 04:57
• 8 The Longer You Hold On 03:01
• 9 Back to Me 03:01
• 10 Summer Wages 04:33
• Total Runtime 33:09

Info for Memories and Empties

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.

Wall’s sixth studio album, contains 10 new songs, including “1800 Miles” and a cover of Ian Tyson’s 1985 track, “Summer Wages.”

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.

“It’s just a love letter to country music. Really, it’s just a bunch of sad drinking songs mostly. I just wanted to make a record that sounded like Merle Haggard and the Strangers—late 60s into the early 70s. Honestly, to me, that’s where country music peaked. That’s my favorite stuff to listen to, and I think that was the best band in country music. I wanted to make a record that reminded me of that. So that’s what we did… or tried to (do) anyways.” (Colter Wall)

Colter Wall

Colter Wall
is a young Saskatchewan born songwriter and performing musician. Steeped in Old Timey material and traditional Americana, 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. Wall Draws influence from legends of the past such as Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and The Band, as well as more modern Americana pioneers including Shovels and Rope, Jack White, Ray Lamontagne, and Shakey Graves. Despite only recently beginning his musical career, Colter Wall has been seen in the company of Saskatchewan's infamous gritty bluegrass trailblazers,The Dead South. Wall has had the opportunity to open for The Dead South on several occasions with more show's upcoming. In addition to racking up memorable live shows across the province, Wall is planning on releasing an EP in the summer of 2015 and has been busy recording at Regina's own Studio One. From dive bars to fundraiser galas, Colter Wall has a history of leaving audiences in shock at the maturity of his voice as well as his songwriting.

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