Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs (Softpak) - Import CD

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Colter Wall

Description:

Like Songs of the Plains before it, Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs bears a title thats a plain description of the content within. Call it Colter Walls predilection for literalism: hes not comfortable with shades of grey, he likes things direct, since thats the way they did it in the old days. The old days he conjures on Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs go further back than the ones on Songs of the Plains. He covers such cowboy classics as Big Iron and I Ride an Old Paint then writes Western tunes and talking blues to match, creating a dusty fantasia conjuring a time and place before either the Nashville sound or its outlaw backlash. Conceptually, its clean and tight. Wall doesnt deviate from his stated description at all, so cheers for truth in advertising. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine