Charley Crockett

Charley Crockett taps into Americana mythos in his music, which suits someone who is a distant relative of Davy Crockett. Originally a blues singer, in time Crockett explored other American roots music, incorporating soul, gospel, and especially country. The latter was the focus of Lil G.L.'s Honky Tonk Jubilee, a collection of covers of country classics, but that 2017 album also illustrated how Crockett fused all these sounds into a distinctive, earthy signature. He pulled off the same trick on Lonesome as a Shadow, a 2018 album that helped him consolidate a following in the ...