Charley Crockett New Album “Clovis” Pulled From Streaming
Well this sucks.
Charley Crockett shocked everyone on Tuesday, April 28th when at about 8:00 PM Central, he dropped a new 14-song album called Clovis, just three weeks after releasing his third and final album with major label Island Records, Age of the Ram. Even for the prolific Charley Crockett, the turnaround time was pretty remarkable, and appeared to be intentional to in part undercut Island who was still promoting the previous album.
“Every time I find out I signed a deal I don’t like, and I go to these fuckin’ business people, and tell them I don’t like the deal, I don’t think it’s fair, they say ‘Tough luck kid, you shouldn’t of fuckin’ signed it.’” Charley Crockett said. “As soon as I hold them to that same standard, I’m the fuckin’ bad guy,” (laughing).
Now all of that is up in the air as streaming service users in the United States and elsewhere noticed on Wednesday afternoon (5-6) that all the tracks on Clovis were greyed out, if the album could be found at all. Those who downloaded it are patting themselves on the back at the moment, while some fans in other countries are still seeing it—not uncommon when licensing or publishing issues come into play.
What’s come in the play here, keeping many for hearing Charley’s sweet new album that some are claiming is his best yet? Saving Country Music has been shaking trees all afternoon and evening, but so far, nothing is falling as far as solid information on what might be happening.
It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that Island Records wasn’t too happy with Clovis and Crockett’s attitude, and found a stitch in the contract that forbids Crockett from releasing new music for a certain period of time, sort of like a recorded music radius clause. But this has not been confirmed. Since Crockett released Clovis entirely by himself without a label, perhaps it’s just some sort of technical snafu that needs to be resolved.
So far Crockett has not addressed the situation publicly, only posting an image of the cover art earlier on Wednesday with the simple caption “My Way.”
More information when more is known. But no, you’re not being punk’d by Spotify. Clovis is currently a ghost.
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May 6, 2026 @ 7:38 pm
Most of it is still on Spotify, but it doesn’t have the first two tracks it starts at “One Eyed Jack”
May 6, 2026 @ 7:42 pm
It might be cached in your system like that. It’s currently greyed out in its entirety on Spotify, and not present at all on Apple Music or Amazon.
May 6, 2026 @ 10:01 pm
FWIW I bought it on Amazon for $8.99 last week and it works for me. I have no idea whether the record company pulled it or if he did but he can play this for all it’s worth. If the industry is harassing him, they make him the underdog that the fans cheer on by buying his stuff.
Trig, you and I know how skilled he is at manipulating the media. This is the guy that bought billboards to promote his album during the pandemic. He can get at least some of the money he put into this back off the higher profile, merch, ticket sales and just media attention. Look at the stories posted here over the last two weeks and see who has the highest number of mentions in the titles.
Today’s music business is the wild West and the industry hasn’t figured out how to tame it yet. Hell, they haven’t recovered from Napster yet and still think that physical media and corporate radio are the only revenue streams for an artist.
May 6, 2026 @ 10:26 pm
Well if you purchased the digital tracks, they’re yours to keep.
I really don’t know what’s going on here, and it might be that Charley Crockett doesn’t know either. This doesn’t feel like some sort of ploy to me from Charley. Most any recording contract is going to have stipulations about how an artist can’t release new music in a certain time period after the last album or the contract ends. It might also have non-defamation clauses. Of course, you can negotiate to get all of this stuff out, but who knows what Charley’s contract said. Clearly, he was pretty unhappy with Island.
May 6, 2026 @ 7:58 pm
Hopefully it’s back ASAP, really great album.
May 6, 2026 @ 8:07 pm
Wow this sucks I have been really loving this album
May 6, 2026 @ 8:43 pm
I downloaded it onto an offline device (download it as in YouTube Music/premium). Was thinking all day about listening to it again to see why I liked or didn’t like some things.
Off to make a bootleg off of this device before I sync it to Wi-Fi next time. Audio cable out, audio recorder input, voila shitty quality bootleg til whatever this is get sorted out. Usually when I do something like this I end up shooting the artist some money.
Was he selling it separately or was it only on streaming?
May 6, 2026 @ 10:09 pm
Amazon was selling the digital version for $8.99 and the one I got still plays. There’s no news so far as to when/if physical media and merch will be available. Since the actual album was just recorded in late March and Shooter would have needed time to mix it, etc., maybe the stuff just isn’t ready yet.
Which makes me wonder if he pulled it himself and will reveal a brand new line of Clovis CDs, vinyl and merch any day now.
May 6, 2026 @ 11:28 pm
It’s not shown on Amazon music anymore but for some reason I can still play it as I write (cached?). How odd? Maybe Island were not happy with a release so soon after Age of the Ram or this was some contractual clause that prohibited such a quick release of new music? It would be interesting to know the reason for it disappearing. Hopefully, it will be back and I am sure it will at some stage in the future. I am going to give it another listen before it disappears. It is a good album as are almost all his albums.
May 6, 2026 @ 11:47 pm
Correction….played a few songs and then disappeared altogether….