Yeah, I saw all the back and forths between Charley Crockett and Jack White last week. I also found the entire exchange and aftermath to be aggressively, aggressively boring. Don’t you think we’ve squeezed that turnip enough?
If you need any more validation that some weird social contagion around attempting to take down Charley Crockett has taken hold among a certain population, look no further than this irresponsible, and arguably libelous new article.
Few if anything is uniting the population of the United States these days, and the same goes in country music, which is virtually split right down the middle by the culture war. But opposition to AI and data centers is.
There is also a very real possibility that we are witnessing Charley Crockett being legitimately “cancelled,” or at least the attempt to cancel him—and everything that loaded term entails. At the moment, it’s time to sound the red alert.
You can tell it’s a slow news week when it’s a nothing burger with cheese like this that creates the biggest nontroversy in all of music. Charley Crockett ditched one of his openers since they are professed “Satanists.”
The saga continues for Charley Crockett and his 2026 album Clovis, with the plot thickening from a new label signing, and a promise for the album’s return on 4th of July weekend.
In 2026, the Grammy Awards have brought back the “Best Contemporary Folk Album” category that was eliminated in 2012, while also founding a new “Best Traditional Folk Album” category.
It’s time to consider the best songs and singles of 2026 so far. Opinions on songs are always more varied than even with albums. But the point of this exercise is to help inform the public about a song they might have missed.
There is confirmation that street teams have been handing out Clovis during CMA Fest this week in Nashville, and two Charley Crockett semis are parked just outside of the CMA perimeter, repping the independent country star.
As we near the halfway pole of the musical year, it’s time to reflect back on the best albums that have been released so far. The top ten albums listed below should be considered early Album of the Year contenders.
We don’t know for sure since nobody is talking in either the Charley Crockett camp, or at Island Records. But talking to numerous individuals within the music industry, there is a handful of likely reasons ‘Clovis’ was pulled.
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.
Nobody panic. But there are so many great songs being released at the moment that we must interrupt regularly scheduled programming to update the Top 25 Playlist out-of-cycle.
Only time will determine if Clovis is a career-defining record for Crockett. But what Clovis clearly is already is a turning point in Crockett’s career where he’s re-asserting who’s in control.
A new album from Charley Crockett, and dropped at 8:00 pm Central on a random Tuesday night? Why not. Or as Charley Crockett said on Instagram about 30 minutes after the surprise release…
The continued frustration with how the media and journalists decidedly outside of the country music fold decide to commentate on the genre irresponsibly was sent into the stratosphere recently by an article in NY Mag.
When searching on Spotify for the new Paul Cauthen album by quite literally entering “Paul Cauthen,” the very first thing that came up and in highlighted form was Charley Crockett’s ‘Age of the Ram.’
‘Age of the Ram’ is the third and final installment of what Crockett calls his “Sagebrush Trilogy” following the harrowing story of Billy McLane, and truly fulfills the promise of a conceptualized narrative.
Charley Crockett was scheduled to perform eight dates all across Canada heading into early March. Now none of them will be fulfilled due to a 10-year-old marijuana charge in the US. Marijuana is legal in Canada.
Charley Crockett’s Sagebrush Trilogy of albums will be completed when he releases the Shooter Jennings-produced ‘Age Of The Ram.’ To complete the trilogy, it will take 20 overall tracks.
In 2026, The Blue Ox Festival features a stacked lineup of country and roots talent, topped off by some of the top live performers of the discipline, some of the greatest live acts in all of music.
Jelly Roll is finally starting to experience the widespread scrutiny his life, career, and music has deserved for a few years now. But it’s coming in a very unusual, and frankly, misguided manner.
They call him Kashus, and he’s the latest to tap into the inviting and lucrative sound that infuses influences of vintage soul and country together, making something that’s distinctly Southern and soulful.
This year, using the term “essential” has never felt more important. As AI threatens to upend the music industry in the new year, it’s critical we underscore just how essential music is to all of us.