A rolling drumbeat and solid tambourine punctuate Austin-based Charley Crockett’s twang on his slinging new country hit, “Lonesome Drift.” It’s a precursor to an album coming in March — co-produced with Shooter Jennings.
“I started writing the song back when I was still playing in subways in New York,” Rrecalls Crockett. “It’s how I learned to play electric guitar with an amp on my shoulder. While I was waiting for the next train, I wrote songs. A few years later, I was in California working on the ganja farms, and I came up with the ‘Lonesome Drifter’ section. When I arrived on the West Coast, I worked to stay out there as a drifter, so I could get away with playing music for a living. At night, I was doing heavy electric blues and hillbilly s at local bars for six hours. Shooter got me back into that mindset. The burden of becoming a troubadour is you’re standing in a position that gives you a clear perspective of the struggles of humans. When all is said and done, everyone is just swinging a hammer to survive.”
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