Charley Crockett has introduced his new album Lonesome Drifter, out March 14, his official debut for Island Data. On Friday, Crockett will unveil the album’s title observe and accompanying video. Crockett will probably be performing two nights at Geodis Park right here in Nashville opening for Tyler Childers on Oct 10 and 11. GET TICKETS HERE.
Crockett co-produced the album alongside multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning Shooter Jennings. Over the course of simply 10 days. Throughout the periods, Charley and Shooter invariably bottled “the magic of efficiency on tape.”
“Shooter and I barely talked about it,” says Charley. “I simply introduced all of my guys out, and the album made itself. It was dwell with out loads of overdubs. There have been no inhibitions. I wasn’t being judged, and I didn’t really feel self-conscious. Shooter knew learn how to lower unfastened and let this factor unfold.”
His imaginative and prescient crystallizes on the primary single and title observe, “Lonesome Drifter.” A rolling drumbeat and regular tambourine underscore the slow-burning vocal supply, “I’m only a lonesome drifter on the one freeway.”Guitar wails like a siren within the background till Crockett’s fret-scorching solo shakes the bridge. The visible interprets the tune’s vitality to the display screen, talking to his unbelievable journey to this point within the course of.
“I began writing the tune again once I was nonetheless taking part in in subways in New York,” he remembers. “It’s how I realized to play electrical guitar with an amp on my shoulder. Whereas I used to be ready for the subsequent practice, I wrote songs. Just a few years later, I used to be in California engaged on the ganja farms, and I got here up with the ‘Lonesome Drifter’ part. Once I arrived on the West Coast, I labored to remain on the market as a drifter, so I may get away with taking part in music for a residing. At evening, I used to be doing heavy electrical blues and hillbilly shit at native bars for six hours. Shooter acquired me again into that mindset. The burden of turning into a troubadour is you’re standing ready that offers you a transparent perspective of the struggles of people. When all is alleged and carried out, everyone seems to be simply swinging a hammer to outlive.”
All of that work and life successfully ready him to report Lonesome Drifter with Shooter. Musically, he traces a roadmap by means of his personal myriad of influences, tipping a hat to everyone from Waylon Jennings, Invoice Withers, Bob Dylan, and Woody Guthrie, drawing on numerous, usually unbelievable true experiences since he first left his native Texas. From the spellbinding vocal performances to the uncooked and rustic instrumentation to the unforgettable storytelling, Lonesome Drifter stands out as his most cohesive physique of labor to this point.
Charley garnered a GRAMMY® Award nod within the class of “Greatest Americana Album” for final yr’s $10 Cowboy. The GRAMMY® Awards ceremony airs on Sunday, February 2, 2025, on CBS from Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles, CA.
TRACKLISTING
1. Lonesome Drifter
2. Recreation I Can’t Win
3. Jamestown Ferry
4. Simple Cash
5. Underneath Neon Lights
6. This Loopy Life
7. The Dying Of Invoice Bailey
8. By no means No Extra
9. Life Of A Nation Singer
10. One Trick Pony
11. Night time Rider
12. Amarillo By Morning
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