Charley Crockett has announced that he will release new album – Music City USA – on September 17th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers.
Charley Crockett will release his new album Music City USA on September 17th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers. It’s Crockett’s 10th full-length album release in the last six years, and his second full-length release of 2021 – the former being a tribute to Texan country great James Hand. Music City USA was recorded at Soil of the South Productions in Valdosta, GA and produced by Mark Neill, who also produced Crockett’s 2020 album Welcome to Hard Times. Crockett has released the first single from Music City USA, the slow-burning Southern soul gem “I Need Your Love”, along with a beautifully shot video for the song, directed by Bobby Cochran.
“I like to think of my sound as ‘Gulf & Western’, and this number here is all gulf coast music,” explains Crockett. “Something you’d hear out of southeast Texas recording studios or southern Louisiana. I’d been foolin’ around with this song for a while, and when we went to record it, we decided at the last minute to double the length of the chorus. I felt right then that we had something. I’d wanted to bring the horns back for a couple tunes on this album. Soul and Country R&B from the deep south is a whole lot of who I am. I hope it shows though on ‘I Need Your Love’”.
Crockett has become one of the leading lights in independent country music following a decade of busking on the streets of New York City and New Orleans, and only two years removed from life-saving open-heart surgery. He crafts his self-proclaimed “Gulf & Western” sound by synthesizing country, blues, soul, cajun, Western Swing, R&B and other pieces of American roots music into an unmatched, truly singular sound.
Read an essay on Crockett and Music City USA penned by writer, historian, Willie Nelson biographer and fellow Texan Joe Nick Patoski here.
