Colter wall age

On a recent night in the woods west of Nashville, the twenty-two-year-old Canadian singer Colter Wall let out a sigh of relief. He’d been putting the finishing touches on a new batch of recordings, and one track just hadn’t felt right. “It’s an old cowboy song,” he told me. “The only one I wasn’t happy about. It’s just me singin’, playing a chord, and lettin’ it ring. It needed an atmospheric feel.” Wall wanted to nod toward the traditional country-and-Western music he’d grown up with: the folksy romanticism of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Marty Robbins. His producer, the Grammy winner Dave Cobb, invited Wall to his house, where he lit a fire and set up a mike; the singer finished the take accompanied by the sound of the flames. “It’s always nice to hear a crackling fire,” Wall said.

Wall is among the most reflective young country singers of his generation—though he calls himself a folksinger, and refers to his new music as Western songs. He’s also a gentleman, and will call you sir so often you might feel rude by comparison. Both his manners and his music are vestiges of an upbring

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