In my recent conversions to listening to any manner of outlaw-ish countrified blues/bluegrass/whatever music, my ramblings led me to this cat from Saskatchewan (Northern Montana!) with a killer baritone voice and some smoking finger-picking and songwriting.
If you’ve never listened to him, you should. This is a song called “Kate McCannon” and it’s one of the best murder ballads I have ever heard:
Also, the hauntingly beautiful cattle call inspired “Cowpoke” (Colter is apparently a real-live rancher when he’s not making music). I find this incredibly moving somehow:
