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->''Sleeping on the Blacktop''

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-->Three dead in a crash on the number four
-->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God}} up high]]
-->Not sure whose will be done
-->You can call me a sinner for wondering why

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-->Three ->Three dead in a crash on the number four
-->Two ->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God}} up high]]
-->Not ->Not sure whose will be done
-->You ->You can call me a sinner for wondering why
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[[caption-width-right:350: The most American Canadian to ever live.]]
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* VillainSong: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' and arguably ''Johnny Boy's Bones'', although in the latter Johnny and his wife are decidedly presented as TragicVillains.

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* VillainSong: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' and arguably ''Johnny Boy's Bones'', although in the latter Johnny and his wife are decidedly presented as TragicVillains.[[TragicVillain tragic villains]].

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* DealWithTheDevil: ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' revolves around the classic 'learning to play guitar from the Devil encountered on the road in exchange for [[YourSoulIsMine your soul]]' associated with [[Music/RobertJohnson]]; although the lyrics never specifically mention [[AtTheCrossroads crossroads]].

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* DealWithTheDevil: ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' revolves around the classic 'learning to play guitar from the Devil encountered on the road in exchange for [[YourSoulIsMine your soul]]' associated with [[Music/RobertJohnson]]; [[Music/RobertJohnson Robert Johnson]]; although the lyrics never specifically mention [[AtTheCrossroads crossroads]].


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*SouthernGentleman: The suit-wearing Devil is said to be 'white as a cotton field'.
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* DealWithTheDevil: ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' revolves around the classic 'learning to play guitar from the Devil encountered on the road in exchange for [[YourSoulIsMine your soul' associated with [[Music/RobertJohnson]]; although the lyrics never specifically mention [[AtTheCrossroads crossroads].

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* DealWithTheDevil: ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' revolves around the classic 'learning to play guitar from the Devil encountered on the road in exchange for [[YourSoulIsMine your soul' soul]]' associated with [[Music/RobertJohnson]]; although the lyrics never specifically mention [[AtTheCrossroads crossroads]. crossroads]].

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*CoolCar: The Devil drives a Series 10 Cadillac.
*{{Confessional}}: The FramingDevice for ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie'' is the narrator telling his story to a reverend.



*DealWithTheDevil: ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' revolves around the classic 'learning to play guitar from the Devil encountered on the road in exchange for [[YourSoulIsMine your soul' associated with [[Music/RobertJohnson]]; although the lyrics never specifically mention [[AtTheCrossroads crossroads].



*DevilButNoGod: The Devil explicitly shows up in ''Imaginary Appalachia'' to take a man's soul; God is only obliquely referred to.



*FunetikAksent: The title of 'Nothin'' is written like this.
*GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In keeping with his ManOfWealthAndTaste characterisation, the Devil in his eponymous song smokes a cigar.



->Just as familiar as a bottle and a glass
* MurderBallad: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate''.

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->Just ->[[TheAlcoholic Just as familiar as a bottle and a glass
glass]]
*ManOfWealthAndTaste: Just like in the TropeNamer, {{Satan}} is described as this in ''The Devil Wears A Suit and Tie''; a fancy suited, cigar-smoking gentleman in a nice car.
* MurderBallad: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate''. Sophisticate''.
*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The narrators of ''Living On The Sand'' and ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie' ''seriously'' end up regretting their actions.
*RockMeAsmodeus: As the Devil says:
->You're a six-string picker
->Just as I, I am
->Let me learn you something
->I know a few turns to make all the girls dance



*{{Satan}}: Encountered in ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie''; also referred to in ''Sleeping On the Blacktop''.
*SelfTitledAlbum: His first.
*SouthernGothic: Some of the darker songs on ''Imaginary Appalachia'' dip into this.
*SouthernGothicSatan: The Devil from ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie'' is a variation: rather than moving into a town and corrupting its residents, he encounters the protagonist on the road and in a variation of the [[Music/RobertJohnson myth]], [[DealWithTheDevil swindles him into selling his soul]].
*SherlockScan: The Devil is able to deduce that the narrator is a guitar player just by looking at his hands.



* VillainSong: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' and arguably ''Johnny Boy's Bones'', although in the latter Johnny and his wife are decidedly presented as TragicVillains.

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* VillainSong: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' and arguably ''Johnny Boy's Bones'', although in the latter Johnny and his wife are decidedly presented as TragicVillains.TragicVillains.
*YourSoulIsMine: The Devil to the narrator of ''The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie'
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* DefiantToTheEnd: The narrator of 'Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate' continues to insist his murder was completely WorthIt, even as he's being *taken to the gallows*.

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* DefiantToTheEnd: The narrator of 'Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate' continues to insist his the murder he committed was completely WorthIt, even as he's being *taken ''taken to the gallows*.gallows for it''.
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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum ''Colter Wall]]'' (Album, 2017, Young Mary's Record Co.)

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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum ''Colter Colter Wall]]'' (Album, 2017, Young Mary's Record Co.)
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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum ''Colter Wall'']] (Album, 2017, Young Mary's Record Co.)

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* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum ''Colter Wall'']] Wall]]'' (Album, 2017, Young Mary's Record Co.)

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*BarBrawl: The narrator of ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' is being hanged for killing a man in one of these.



* DrugsAreBad: The immediately previous line of that song alludes to this:

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*DefiantToTheEnd: The narrator of 'Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate' continues to insist his murder was completely WorthIt, even as he's being *taken to the gallows*.
* DrugsAreBad: The immediately previous line of that song 'Sleeping on the Blacktop' alludes to this: this in its jaded narration:


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*MurderBallad: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate''.
*SarcasmMode: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' is about a thug who is being hanged for killing a man in a [[BarBrawl bar fight]].


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*WorthIt: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'':
->It was worth it
->To see that boy
->Cut from the knees

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*AsTheGoodBookSays: ''Living On the Sand'' is built around Matthew 7:26, referring to sinful lifestyles:
->And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
*ButForMeItWasTuesday: It's heavily implied that the narrator of ''Sleeping on the Blacktop'' has passed through so many towns and seen so many people that he can no longer remember if he's been somewhere before or seen someone before.



* DrugsAreBad: The very next line of that song alludes to this:

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* DrugsAreBad: The very next immediately previous line of that song alludes to this:



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**GriefSong: ''Johnny Boy's Bones'' is about a Confederate soldier's widow.
*HaveWeMet: In ''Sleeping on the Blacktop'':
->Corn liquor tastes sweeter in this town
->Could it be it's the same as the last?
->I swear I've seen ya face elsewhere before
->Just as familiar as a bottle and a glass
*SympatheticPOV: ''Johnny Boy's Bones'' is narrated by a dying Confederate soldier and his grieving wife.
*TheAtoner: The narrator of ''Living on the Sand'', who regrets his previous sinful lifestyle, and tries to stop the person he's addressing from following the same life he used to.
*WalkingTheEarth: ''Sleeping On the Blacktop'' is narrated by a jaded drifter wandering around the US; the title refers to sleeping at night on road surfaces.
*VillainSong: ''Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate'' and arguably ''Johnny Boy's Bones'', although in the latter Johnny and his wife are decidedly presented as TragicVillains.

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* CoverDrop: The album cover of ''Imaginary Appalachia'' is a drawing of a smoking coyote. Sure enough, in ''Sleeping on the Blacktop'', we get the line:

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* CoverDrop: The album cover of ''Imaginary Appalachia'' is a drawing of a smoking coyote. Sure enough, in ''Sleeping on the Blacktop'', we get the line: Blacktop'':


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*DrugsAreBad: The very next line of that song alludes to this:
--> Businessman with a needle and a spoon
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->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God}} up high]]
->Not sure whose will be done
->You can call me a sinner for wondering why

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->Two -->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God}} up high]]
->Not -->Not sure whose will be done
->You -->You can call me a sinner for wondering why
->''Sleeping on the Blacktop''
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->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God up high]]
Not sure whose will be done
You can call me a sinner for wondering why

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->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God [[{{God}} up high]]
Not ->Not sure whose will be done
You ->You can call me a sinner for wondering why
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-->Three dead in a crash on the number four
->Two witnesses [[{{Satan}} below]] and [[{{God up high]]
Not sure whose will be done
You can call me a sinner for wondering why

Colter Wall (born June 27, 1995 in Saskatchewan, [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canada]] is a country musician.

Colter first attracted interest in 2015 with his debut EP, ''Imaginary Appalachia''; this has so far been followed by three albums.

!!Discography
*''Imaginary Appalachia'' (EP, 2015, Young Mary's Record Co.)
*''[[SelfTitledAlbum ''Colter Wall'']] (Album, 2017, Young Mary's Record Co.)
*''Songs of the Plains'' (Album, 2018, Young Mary's Record Co.)
*Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs (Album, 2020, Young Mary's Record Co.)

!!Colter Wall's music contains examples of:
*CoverDrop: The album cover of ''Imaginary Appalachia'' is a drawing of a smoking coyote. Sure enough, in ''Sleeping on the Blacktop'', we get the line:
--> Coyote chewing on a cigarette
*ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The titles of ''Songs of the Plains'' and ''Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs'' summarise exactly their contents; Imaginary Appalachia, slightly less so.
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