
Colter Wall
A voice older than the calendar says it should be.
Colter sings cowboy songs in 2026 the way someone might have sung them in 1936, and that is not a put-on. He works a ranch, he sings what he knows, and when he covers Stan Rogers or Ian Tyson, you believe him. The most quietly important voice in modern Western music.
- Ian Tyson
- Marty Robbins
- Townes Van Zandt
- Vincent Neil Emerson
- Tyler Childers
Colter Wall on tape
Late-night listening. Hit play and let it run.
Landmark records
Pull the thread
USA · 1944 — 1997
Townes Van Zandt
The patron saint of the kitchen-table songwriters.
USA · 1978 — present
Sturgill Simpson
Walked into Nashville with a haircut and an attitude.
USA · 1991 — present
Tyler Childers
Appalachia, unfiltered and unembarrassed.
USA · 1984 — present
Charley Crockett
Keeps the bones, throws out the gristle.
USA · 1983 — present
Margo Price
Outlaw country with a working-class spine.
USA · 1955 — present
Steve Earle
Wrote 'Guitar Town' and never apologized.
USA · 1967 — present
Gillian Welch
American primitive, on purpose.
USA · 1976 — present
Hayes Carll
The funniest songwriter to also break your heart.
