Charley Crockett - The Man From Waco

Good album. The playlist he made on Spotify is really good too.

Yep. I’ve heard it at concerts. They did a really good job of it on this album imo.

He is the best thing going in country music right now. Willie should put him above Isbell and the Douche Unit on the current tour.

I don’t think he’s the “best thing” in country music currently. He’s good, but I don’t think he’s actually very interesting at this point. A lot of the songs sound the same. He’s got his gimmick and it’s good but it’s repetitive.

Thanks for sharing. I'm really enjoying this. Hadn't even heard of Charley Crockett.

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Hadn't even heard of Charley Crockett.

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I still think The Valley is his best album so far, but check out his two cover albums he put out a few years ago.

Lil GL's Blues Bonanza and Lil' GL's Honky Tonk Jubilee.

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but I got some South LA, some new Orleans...maybe because of the accordion..

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He lived in NOLA for a while and was a street musician there.

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Saw him in Shreveport last week

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I was there too. Great show and he seemed to have liked the Strand by his comments

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He lived in NOLA for a while and was a street musician there.

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His backstory is pretty crazy. The guy's been around.


Early life
A distant relative of Davy Crockett,[7] Charley was born in San Benito, Texas, United States.[8] The son of a single mother[9] with an older brother and sister, Crockett was raised in a trailer park in Los Fresnos, Texas.[7][10] His mother relocated the family to Dallas,[10] and Crockett spent the summer months with his uncle, who lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans.[11] Upon leaving high school at the age of 17, Crockett decided to travel with his guitar acquired by his mother from a pawn shop. Crockett noted "I taught myself how to play and started to write songs immediately, without any chord knowledge or anything. I didn't know what key I was in for 12 years, but my ear was really good, and I could play in any key and any chord. I just didn't know what it was."[9] His early musical influences came from hearing hip hop, and became fascinated with the samples used. Crockett said "I got into Curtis Mayfield through samples of his songs by other artists, and Nina Simone was through a sample. Even J. Cole, I was listening to a song of his ("Kenny Lofton"), and it was based on the sample from the Manhattans version of "Hurt".[8]

Crockett played music on the streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans and in Deep Ellum, Dallas as a teenager. Later he traveled further afield by hitchhiking and riding freight, and by 2009 he was busking in New York City.[11][7] As he improved his performance skills, Crockett organized a street band called the Trainrobbers, which caught the attention of a Manhattan-based representative for Sony Music. She signed the 26 years old Crockett to a two-year management contract, although he rejected a publishing deal.[9][11] Eventually tired of life on the streets and the pending expiration of the contract, Crockett relocated to Northern California, where he combined working on farms and communes with performing for three more years.[9][7][8] Crockett then existed on the streets in Paris, France, for a year, and briefly lived in Spain and Morocco.[12]

During these years, Crockett struggled to stay on the right side of the law. In the U.S., he sold marijuana to get by, at one point working the harvest in a clandestine marijuana field in the Pacific Northwest, and was arrested for possession in 2014. He was convicted of a felony crime twice. Music provided the way out.[13] Crockett noted later, "People think my story is far-fetched, but the thing is, I've toned it down."[14]

Youtube suggested him to me. I'm glad. He's good