Charley Crockett is making a career out of being underestimated, either by the business or by his very own fans. This past week, he proved that again with a three-night residency at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive and longest-running supper clubs, the Café Carlyle on the Upper East Side. This …
Read More »Is Gavin Adcock Country Music's Biggest Troll? Everyone He Has Beef With
Gavin Adcock doesn’t have any Number One country songs yet, but he’s determined that country music fans know his name. And, to his credit, many probably do. Before he ever released his debut album for Warner Music Nashville in 2024, Actin’ Up Again, the Georgia native was already becoming an …
Read More »Morgan Wallen Flips Off a Charley Crockett T-Shirt Held by Gavin Adcock
Morgan Wallen flipped the bird while performing at a recent show at Rogers Centre in Toronto. It was a move many online have interpreted as the singer weighing in on the ongoing feud between Gavin Adcock and Charley Crockett over what merits “authenticity” in the country genre. During Wallen’s performance …
Read More »Charley Crockett Says There's Nothing Inauthentic About Subway Busking
Charley Crockett knows that many of you have seen the video of him busking on a subway. In the clip, he’s not the Crockett that fans recognize today: there’s no cowboy hat, no dapper suit, and no country-sounding songs. But Crockett says that’s all part of his evolution, even if …
Read More »Charley Crockett on Nashville Pop Country: 'I Don't Think They Stand for Anything'
Charley Crockett has seen his name in a lot of headlines over the past week, thanks not only to his funky new album Dollar a Day, but for an online feud with the country singer Gavin Adcock. After Crockett posted his thoughts about authenticity in country music on Instagram, Adcock …
Read More »Gavin Adcock vs. Charley Crockett: Everything That's Happened in Country Feud
Up until recently, many country fans probably didn’t know the name Gavin Adcock. Then he started a bona fide country music feud with Charley Crockett. In August, Crockett, a cowboy singer from San Benito, Texas, addressed country fans on Instagram in a lengthy post that focused on country music’s favorite …
Read More »Charley Crockett Is on a Very Funky Roll
Over the past 10 years, Charley Crockett has released 15 albums, some just months apart. His latest, Dollar a Day, arrives only five months since March’s Lonesome Drifter. But this cycle, at least, doesn’t feel the least bit rushed or half-baked. Rather, the Texas country singer has found his groove. …
Read More »Charley Crockett Is Taking Texas to the World
B efore Charley Crockett kicked off this particular show, he hung out, sipping from a red plastic cup and making small talk the same way he has before most concerts in his nearly two-decade career. He only got wide-eyed once, when someone in his camp asked how a rodeo could …
Read More »Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett Announce Texas-Sized 'The Crooner and the Cowboy' Tour
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the upcoming co-headlining the Crooner & the Cowboy tour from Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett. The run of shows scheduled to makes stops throughout North America this summer will feature full sets from both Bridges and Crockett, plus opening performances from Noeline Hofmann, Reyna …
Read More »The Best of SXSW Day Five: Charley Crockett, Wifigawd, Fantasy of a Broken Heart
And then it was Saturday. SXSW 2025’s week-long music festivities closed out with another night of great shows from up-and-comers, established stars, and veteran acts writing new chapters. Join us for one more recap before we say goodbye ’til next year, won’t you? Here are the best things we saw …
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