Colter Wall sings about the prairies on Songs of the Plains

After extensively touring for the past two years, Colter Wall drew inspiration from the prairies for his new album Songs of the Plains.

Wall was on stage at the Living Sky Casino’s Event Centre on October 10 for a sold out concert to kick off a hectic tour in support of his new full-length album. After fittingly launching his CD release tour in Swift Current, he had five concerts in Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton and Calgary before heading south for a 31 date tour across the United States before wrapping up his tour in Los Angeles on December 14.

His new project was produced by Nashville based Dave Cobb, who is working with a stable of artists reviving traditional country music.

Songs of the Plains contains a series of prairie themed tracks of a bygone era, with a historical themed song Wild Bill Hickok along with Night Herding Song, reminiscent of a trail cowboy song .

There are also a few odes to his upbringing in Swift Current, with the lyric “This Southside Swift Current boy’s northside-bound” featured in the song John Beyers (Camaro Song).

“One thing I’ve noticed over the last few years, in the United States and playing in Europe, is that people all over the world really don’t know much about Canada at all,” Wall said in a press release launching his new tour. “When you talk about Saskatchewan, people really have no idea. Part of it is because there are so few people there. It’s an empty place—it makes sense that people don’t know much about it. But that’s my home, so naturally I’m passionate about it. With this record, I really wanted people to look at our Western heritage and our culture.”