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Charley Crockett on Signing With Island, Celebrating a Decade of Genre-Fusing Music With ‘Lonesome Drifter’: ‘I Wanted to Maintain Ownership’
Charley Crockett opens up to Billboard about his new label deal and his new album, 'Lonesome Drifter.'
Not to be controversial here, but I’ve been around a long time and seen a lot of back rooms in Nashville and the money’s still coming from New York — just like Willie [Nelson] and Waylon [Jennings] figured out. “I’d wrap those up in colorful ads and magazines and sell them for $5,” he says, recalling that “the amount of money people threw in my case increased overnight — I realized I looked more legitimate.” “The good thing about the way I did it, is I made a lot of records really cheaply with [Thirty Tigers’ co-founder/president David] Macias over the course of those seven, eight years, that allowed me to develop my sound,” Crockett says.
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