Colter Wall Merch <br>There are few whose blood seems to have coalesced into a vessel for country music, but Colter Wall certainly falls into that category. Across his recent albums, the Saskatchewan native has turned the vistas of Western life into old-timey slideshows of hardscrabble folk heroes roaming the wilderness and weary cowboys trading campfire tales. But on his fourth album, Little Songs, he saturates the landscape with original fare that nods to the past without fully immersing himself in its era. <br> <br>By all measures and prognostications, a steady diet of traditional cowboy songs rendered authentically and anachronistically shouldn’t resonate beyond the stoic core of those who live this rugged lifestyle. Yet Wall continues to prove wrong those who insist that his crooning has a low ceiling. <br> <br>As he sings of loss on a cattle drive, grief in New Mexico and struggles for love in Texas over brooding acoustic guitar, Wall offers a fundamental truth. Even in the darkest of times, a song can lift you up and carry you away for a while.