# Anyone Dig Colter Wall?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [August 21, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dig-colter-wall/949287 "2021-08-21T21:38:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dig-colter-wall/949287/1 "2021-08-21T21:38:06Z")

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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:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hCebq5lLgos/maxresdefault.jpg "Original 16 Brewery Sessions - Colter Wall - "Kate McCannon"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCebq5lLgos)

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:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MmxKsK90L14/maxresdefault.jpg "Colter Wall | "Cowpoke" | Western AF") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmxKsK90L14)

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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dig-colter-wall/949287/2 "2021-08-22T01:11:39Z")

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My brother turned me on to him… lovely!

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dig-colter-wall/949287/3 "2021-09-07T13:54:20Z")

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Yeah, he’s pretty dang good. Would love to catch him live somewhere.