Sounds | Charley Crockett - Never No More

Wat zijn op 14 maart uitgebrachte nieuwe album Lonesome Drifter betreft, kan ik kort zijn: goed, maar het begint wat kwantiteit boven kwaliteit te worden. Soms moet je gewoon even wachten, de fans op hun honger laten zitten. Drie albums op een jaar de tijd is gewoon te veel van het goede. Niet dat er op zijn meest recente worp geen juweeltjes staan. Het titelnummer bv. is erg knap en ook dit Never No More, vooral door de inbreng van een harmonica, is een sterke song. We hebben het ondertussen echter allemaal al - véél te recent - eerder gehoord van de man. Ga gerust de wereld rond touren, neem een break als dat financieel haalbaar is en kom dan binnen een jaar of twee ons nog eens echt verrassen.

Then again, de man doet gewoon keihard zijn eigen zin en wie kan hem dat verwijten!

Lonesome Drifter is op 14 maart 2025 verschenen via Lone Star Rider/Island Records.

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"Took a ride in the hill country this morning and gave the album a spin. It’d been a while since I listened to these recordings. I still like them. It sounds like me.

I put 14 albums out independently. 14 y’all. This is my first LP on a major label. If you know me, then you already know they gave me everything I wanted. I almost signed with Columbia Records because I’d wanted to be on the same label as Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Willie Nelson. I can’t tell you how good it felt that they made an offer. Just the gesture alone means the world to me. But when Island Records called me up we were humming from the start. We made the deal and they’d never even heard the album. Besides, it’s the home of Bob Marley and I think it was his music more than anybody else’s when I was a young man that convinced me there was another road to take in life.

“If you’re not living good, travel wide.” I remember something Mark Rothbaum told me not too far back. He said there was no place for Willie Nelson in the music business. He’d made as many records for RCA as I had for Thirty Tigers. Willie created his own world. He built a whole new track to run on. Country music didn’t understand him? So he remade it in his image. And there he is. 91 years young and putting out as many as 4 records a year. You know how rare he is? He’s the only one to do it like that on Earth. Just Willie.

This album here it just kinda happened like a casual conversation you might say. I’ve been working on this movie for going on 2 years now. I can’t say too much but Waylon Jennings is the inspiration for the story and it got to be that I called up Shooter Jennings to get the OK on a few of things. I’ve known Shooter a long time now. He was one of the first guys to take me out on the road. We were all working that Hank Williams circuit like it was goin’ outta style. And it was. Got all bought up by Coke and Pepsi if you know what I mean. I’d first heard about Shooter producing albums back in ‘17 or ‘18. More and more, I’d hear something come out I really liked and find out Waylon Jr. had something to do with it. Aww hell, I’ve made a short story long again. To be continued…"

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