Charley Crockett on His New ‘$10 Cowboy’ Single, Mixing Traditional Country With ‘Swamp-Pop-Soul,’ and Working With Willie Nelson
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Charley Crockett is known as one of the modern kings of country traditionalism, following in the footsteps of his heroes, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, the latter of whom is a pal and collaborator.
And Crockett’s forthcoming album, the just-announced “$10 Cowboy” (due out April 26), offers plenty to chew on for fans of steel guitar-driven honky-tonk music.
But the 39-year-old singer-songwriter also wanted to make sure that country’s adjacency to R&B got accentuated in some of the new songs.
Calling from a visit to a Western-wear store on the outskirts of Denver last week, Crockett told Variety about the stylistic diversity he baked into the new record. “Something that my first agent, Jon Folk,told me early on that really stuck with me is, he said, ‘Man, country music is important, and you do it really well.
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