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World Cafe Nashville: Colter Wall

The country singer's startlingly deep voice and the hard-won wisdom in his songwriting belie his young age. Hear a performance and interview.
For a 20-something, Colter Wall has a startlingly deep voice. His songwriting is full of hard-won wisdom - there are tales of wandering and working, of murder and mystery, that tap into the old, weird lore of North America. And although he's based in Kentucky and spends a lot of time in Nashville, Wall was actually raised in Swift Creek, Saskatchewan.

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