Sleeping on the Blacktop - Colter Wall - MP3 instrumental karaoke

At the heart of Colter Wall's evocative storytelling is a poetic imagination that digs deep into folk, Americana, and country traditions to carve out dark tales like 2015's debut Imaginary Appalachia EP, on which this song is featured. "Sleeping on the Blacktop" distills the Canadian's outsider songwriting into a rough-hewn Southern gothic tale that opens with a languid daytime scene ("Sunshine beating on the good times / Moonlight raising from the grave / String band playing worn out honkey-tonks / Pretty young thing going dancing in the rain") but takes a more sinister direction in the second verse ("High heel lady spitting at the nickajack / Business man with a needle and a spoon / Coyote chewing on a cigarette / Pack o' young boys going howlin' at the moon.") "Sleeping on the Blacktop" is vivid country-folk penned by an old soul.