Like his ancestor Davy, the singer-songwriter has packed a lot into his short life, turning tragedy into risk-taking Americana
Just like Davy Crockett, his wild frontier-roaming ancestor, Charley Crockett has done an awful lot of living. Every bit the lonesome drifter who saunters through his sumptuous brand of vintage Americana, the 36-year-old was raised by a single mother in a
Texas trailer park before leaving for
Paris, Morocco and
Spain. There were stints farming in
California, busking in New Orleans and getting his first break when gigging in the subway carriages of
New York. “I have such an eclectic, colourful background that I think people get overwhelmed – but truth is stranger than fiction,” says Crockett of a life that also includes its unfair share of tragedy: a sister lost to addiction, an incarcerated brother and his own life-saving heart surgery at the start of 2019.
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