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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Texas singer-songwriter Charley Crockett was co-produced with Shooter Jennings.
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- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Country
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Apr 1, 2025Lonesome Drifter is a no-frills effort from Crockett that harkens back to his blues roots while staying stubbornly in the present. Ironically, Crockett’s nostalgia trip created some of his career’s more urgent and present music.
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Mar 14, 2025Lonesome Drifter continues Crockett’s white hot run of records that sound great and are remarkably even-keeled. In this way, he’s like the twangy version of his fellow Texans in Khruangbin: ultra-consistent, highly listenable and effortlessly cool.
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Apr 1, 2025Plenty of songs on Lonesome Drifter tell multi-layered stories, but the longest one stretches barely beyond three-and-a-half minutes. The laudable economy of language resembles his fellow Texan Townes Van Zandt. So, for the most part, does the mood.
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UncutMar 14, 2025Once again ably embracing a broad range, from the knelling, Marty Robbins-ish "Death Of Bill Bailey" to the string-drenched Billy Sherrill-style ballad "This Crazy Life" to "Jamestown Ferry". [Apr 2025, p.28]