Reviews of Chris Wall Music
El Western Motel
“You will not hear a better record this year. You have never heard better work from Chris Wall. And if you’re of a mind to live your life rather than let the damned thing live you, El Western Motel is the soundtrack your own beaten down soul has been humming to your heart for years. Turn it up, and let the horses run.”
— Outlaw Magazine
Just Another Place
“A large part of the world of American country and western music owes something to this singer. Chris Wall always manages to tell stories of a deep emotional impact. Stories about cowboys engaged in the daily difficulties and characters and situations that we could easily find in the stories of Hemingway or Faulkner. The songs of El Western Motel are a disenchanted portrait of the modern day West, poetically interpreted in a way that only great music can express.”
— Planet Country Italy
“Wall released an album full of songs that are sharply written, and, while they are plainly written and sung, the lyrics hide great subtlety and feeling. Each song is a new take on the oldest country themes in the business including love lost, failures and heartache.”
— Nashville Sound
“Just Another Place is chock full of vivid images and raw-boned emotions….”
— No Depression
“The Texas honky-tonker and his accompaniment present an unflinching and finely etched portrait… With Just Another Place, Wall does old Hoss proud.”
— Philadelphia Enquirer
“Wall delivers one of the best start-to-finish collections of outlaw country since Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes.”
— Texas Music Magazine
Tainted Angel
“Chris Wall is Dylan in a cowboy hat and muddy boots, except that he sings better.”
— Twangzine
“When Nashville producers put cowboy hats on apple-cheeked young singers, they’re trying to bestow the kind of authenticity that Chris Wall comes by naturally. He is the real deal, as he proves on his fifth solo album, which enlivens barroom honky-tonk with a dash of brawny Southern rock.”
— Nashville Scene
“If you think country music has last its way, this album may convince you otherwise.”
— Country Standard Time
Any Saturday Night in Texas
“He’s a little too witty, a little too real country to steal frat boy hearts from Jerry Jeff Walker or David Allan Coe. Chris Wall proves on this seamless live romp that it’s better when songcraft elevates humor, instead of the other way around..”
— Austin American-Statesman
“Vocal personality, a quality Chris Wall wears as easily as his sweat-stained, smoke-fumed Stetson… he doesn’t need a publicity agent to tout his authenticity. He proves he’s the real deal every time he steps to the microphone in this live outing.”
— Pulse!
“Chris Wall’s Any Saturday Night in Texas could make a dead armadillo do flips. His songs shine – notably the lilting ballad Big in the Heart and I Feel Like Singin’ Along.”
— Playboy Magazine
Cowboy Nation
“With Cowboy Nation, Chris Wall steps out with a song cycle about lonely tough guys battling self-deception and drinking Roadhouse Whiskey. Wall may be a hard-boiled romantic, but he never gives into sentimentality.”
— Philadelphia Enquirer
“Chris Wall’s Cowboy Nation evokes the Western spirit of country with nary a whiff of campfire nostalgia. Wall sounds like a smarter, more reflective Hank Williams, Jr. – Bocephus without the bluster – and his I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight is destined to become a signature hit for someone..”
— Rolling Stone Magazine
“Nashville’s song-plugging system is not for Chris Wall; he’d rather make his stand out west in the Cowboy Nation, where honest musical soul counts for more than videogenic sex appeal. You might not hear I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight on the radio, but the cowboy at the Rainbow Inn have been known to stand and remove their hats when it comes on the jukebox.