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CHARLEY CROCKETT’s
new album
‘MUSIC CITY USA’
is out now

STREAM ALBUM MUSIC CITY USA

Watch the “Music City USA” music video here

Watch the “The Road to Music City USA” documentary here

Crockett’s Austin City Limits TV Debut Premieres October 30th

Crockett is performing at the Americana Honors & Awards this week at the Ryman Auditorium

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Early praise for Music City USA has already begun to roll in, here’s what we’ve been hearing: “Crockett’s most stylistically expansive and sharply focused.” – Rolling Stone

“Soulful, countrified rhythm and blues.” – CMT

“Crockett’s most relatable yet.” – Billboard

“It’s a country-heavy fall, and Charley’s baritone, old-school vibe and modern edge feels like the past, present, and future of the genre, and then some.” – New York Magazine/Vulture

“Its songs tell stories of self-preservation and determination in Crockett’s signature twangy, velvet croon; of finding your own path, however unconventional — something Crockett has mastered. Despite what the upbeat fiddle and steel guitar arrangements may suggest, the lyrics are dark threads woven into gritty tales of survival, sung in that rich, sometimes baritone voice of his.” – No Depression

“It’s once again an all-killer-no-filler album, Crockett keeping up his extraordinary run of matching quantity with quality.” – Holler

“When escaping into Music City USA, the listener is met with an array of styles, boogying from Hank Williams to Bill Withers and then into classic George Jones. All the while, Crockett barrels his smokey tenor through the halls of almost everything he grew up adoring.” – American Songwriter

“From suave honky-tonk (‘The World Just Broke My Heart’), low and slow soul (‘I Need Your Love’), and electric bender blues (‘This Foolish Game’) to hard-beat barroom ballads (‘Smoky’) and classic country (‘Muddy Water’), it’s a Crockett primer.” – Austin Chronicle 

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September 2021 – “When I cobble it together and look back on it in reflection, it just looks like the path that I walked down. And maybe mine is unusual for today. I’d say it’s highly unusual. To the point that people think it’s made up. The truth is, I’ve toned it down.” Charley Crockett opens the new documentary “The Road to Music City USA” with this explanation of his extraordinary life and career to date. After a decade of itinerant life on the street and only two years removed from life-saving open-heart surgery, Crockett releases his new album Music City USA on September 17 via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers. It’s Crockett’s 10th album release in the last six years (and second release in 2021), and with it he also releases the music video for the title track, filmed in Nashville and featuring a hilarious cameo from Bruce Robison.

With “The Road to Music City USA”, Crockett and filmmaker Bobby Cochran give a window into not just the making of this new album, but Crockett as a man and an artist. Through interviews with Crockett; members of his band the Blue Drifters; collaborators Mark Neill, Jay Moeller, and Billy Horton; writer and historian Joe Nick Patoski; partner Taylor Grace; and some of Crockett’s fans, the film sheds a light on an artist who is quickly becoming one of the most celebrated acts in an independent country.

Crockett has truly had a banner year in 2021. His Austin City Limits TV debut will air on October 30th, he is headlining some of his biggest venues to date on his current fall tour. He plays MerleFest this coming weekend and both weekends of the Austin City Limits festival in October, and he’s confirmed to return to the Stagecoach festival in 2022.

Crockett has already notched three top 5 singles on the Americana radio singles chart this year, and this week Music City USA has moved into the top three on their album chart. He is nominated for the 2021 Americana Music Association awards “Emerging Act of the Year” alongside Amythyst Kiah, Joy Oladokun, Allison Russell and Waxahatchee, and Crockett will perform at the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony Wednesday, September 22nd at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Other performers include Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, The Highwomen, Valerie June, and Margo Price, among others.

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Read an essay on Crockett and Music City USA penned by writer, historian, Willie Nelson biographer and fellow Texan Joe Nick Patoski here.

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Follow Charley Crockett
Website – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram

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