NEW ALBUMS
CHARLEY CROCKETT
Music City USA SON OF DAVY/THIRTY TIGERS
8/10
Prolific Texan’s country-blues double
His 10th album in six years shows the Texan country crooner Charley Crockett is nothing if not prolific. Following the 37-year-old’s tribute to late honkytonker James Hand, his second release of 2021 is a hefty double LP stacked with swinging originals, covers and reversions of his own songs. A perky take on Stonewall Jackson’s 1965 classic “I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water” bounces along next to the horn-assisted Otis Redding-worthy “I Need Your Love”, while the furious banjo of “Round This World” is fit for a spaghetti western shoot-out. What brings them all together is Crockett’s voice; always heartfelt, warm and deeply soulful.