Today, 24-year-old Colter Wall, whose dusty baritone voice and deep well of stories are almost single-handedly carrying traditional western music into the future, released his new self-produced album.

“This is a record I made. I think it’s pretty good. I hope other folks do too.” Wall’s two previous albums were produced in Nashville by Dave Cobb, who has made a career of bringing out the best in ...

Colter Wall, the Canadian cowboy singer who has made a career out of folky, old-timey Western songs, will release his third album late this summer. Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs ...

While songs from the Western countries showed a steady increase in the use of self-focused language (compared to first-person plural pronouns like “we” and “us”), the same measure stayed relatively ...

Most of us—even non-Disney fans—have, at some point in our lives, pretended to have a Snow White moment with an animal out in nature. Maybe you’ve tried to feed a fuzzy woodland creature crunchy ...

Stan Jones wrote one of Western music’s signature songs, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” But it’s another Jones composition, the restless “Cowpoke,” that Colter Wall interprets on his upcoming album, ...

For decades, cowboy songs were a formidable segment of pop music, from the days when Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Bob Wills rode high, the Sons of the Pioneers harmonized about tumbleweeds, and the ...

The Canadian country singer trades his solitary fare for a new set of stories, and a backing band that cuts in and out like a dance partner. With his new album Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy ...