Last Saturday night I had the pleasure of heading up to Atlanta to see a show which featured Great Peacock, Colter Wall and Paul Cauthen at Terminal West<\/a>. I\u2019ve been a fan of Colter Wall\u2019s for a couple of years and this was my first chance to see him live. I was happy to be able to see him do a longer set with The Speedy Creek Band. I was not as familiar with the music of Paul Cauthen or Great Peacock. I enjoy Paul Cauthen\u2019s debut record My Gospel and was looking forward to hearing some of those songs live. However, I had not heard much of Great Peacock before this show.<\/p>\n Great Peacock<\/a> performed a short opening set. They mostly performed songs from their 2015 album Making Ghosts. The group played through original songs like \u201cTake Me Back To The Mountain\u201d and \u201cDesert Lark\u201d. The group has a sound that is very reminiscent of Whiskeytown. Their brand of guitar driven alt country and Americana takes you back to those days. They even did a Whiskeytown cover in their short set. If you\u2019re a fan of this kind of music, you can\u2019t go wrong catching Great Peacock live if they\u2019re playing near you.<\/p>\n Next up was Colter Wall<\/a>. He opened the show up solo picking through \u201cThirteen Silver Dollars\u201d by himself before his band takes the stage about halfway through the song. It\u2019s a great intro to the show that puts the focus on Colter Wall as the star. The band features Anna Blanton on fiddle and mandolin, John Clay on drums, dobro and backing vocals and Jason Simpson on bass. He has a small band, but they help fill out his sound perfectly.<\/span><\/p>\n Colter Wall plays through songs from both his self titled LP and the EP Imaginary Appalachia. He rounds out a full set with a couple of newer songs and covers. He plays songs most fans are familiar with from youtube like \u201cRailroad Bill\u201d and \u201cSaskatchewan 1881\u201d, but he also plays new songs that people have never heard before. As for covers, he mixes in a variety of songs such as Jimmie Rodgers \u201cMule Skinner Blues\u201d, Ray Wylie Hubbard\u2019s \u201cUp Against The Wall, Redneck Mother\u201d and the Ramblin\u2019 Jack Elliot version of \u201cTramp In The Street\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Colter Wall is a very talented performer whom I feel is going as far as he wants to. He\u2019s an amazing songwriter and his live shows will convince you of his talent as a performer. He has a presence that draws everyone\u2019s attention to him and his voice is reminiscent of the late Johnny Cash. The thing I found most amazing that drew me in was his skills as a guitar player. He finger picks everything with the skill of someone much older. I feel like right now, he\u2019s kind of where Sturgill Simpson was after releasing High Top Mountain. He\u2019s not quite drawing a sell out every time, but word of mouth is getting around with every show he plays. I talked to a few people that night and I know a lot of folks either came for the first time because someone told them about him or saw him before and brought a friend. It\u2019s only a matter of time before he is playing larger venues.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cover-Image.jpg\")
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