Charley Crockett (born 1984 in San Benito, Texas) is an American country and Americana singer-songwriter who came up busking across the U.S. and France before turning wildly prolific — more than a dozen albums in under a decade on his own Son of Davy label. Welcome to Hard Times (2020) and $10 Cowboy (2024) are the ones to start with. Dig into Charley Crockett vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Charley Crockett was born in San Benito, Texas in June 1984. He spent his early adulthood traveling between the U.S. East Coast, the West Coast, and France as a busker and street musician. His recording career began in earnest with A Stolen Jewel (2015), and he has since become one of the most prolific contemporary country and Americana artists, releasing more than a dozen studio albums in less than a decade. He runs his own Son of Davy label and works through Thirty Tigers for distribution.
Charley Crockett's sound combines country, country soul, Western swing, traditional country, blues, and Americana with deeply traditionalist instrumental and arrangement choices. His vocal delivery and presentation draw heavily on classic country and Southern soul reference points.
Son of Davy pressings of the Charley Crockett catalog have been issued in multiple color variants and limited editions. Welcome to Hard Times and The Man from Waco have had multiple anniversary and retailer-exclusive pressings.
Listeners new to Charley Crockett typically start with Welcome to Hard Times (2020) or $10 Cowboy (2024).
