Charley Crockett Is Preparing '$10 Cowboy,' An Album He Says Was Written In Truck Stops, Casinos, Alleys

It was a A full 16 months since Charley Crockett released a record. It's just a fraction of a typical album release cycle for most artists, but not for Crockett: The Texas singer-songwriter released a whopping nine records over the five-year span between 2018 and 2022.

The marathon wait is just one reason for this $10 cowboy, Crockett's upcoming album is the most anticipated collection of the 39-year-old's career. In a statement, Crockett explained that the record is a wandering tribute to his homeland.

“This stuff is written in truck stops, it's written in the casinos, it's written in the alleys behind the venues, it's written on my truck that was parked on South Congress in Austin,” he said. “A man like me, a genuine transient, is in a very good position to have something to say about America.”

America is a long-standing subject for Crockett, who said Rolling rock in 2021 that the USA was also the subject of his song “Music City, USA”

Written with Billy Horton, Crockett's title track on “$10 Cowboy” is the kind of gritty portrait of the working class that has come to define Crockett's writing in recent years. Crockett and his band will debut the song Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night.

“Being out on the street gives you a first-hand experience of how different kinds of Americans see themselves going through some kind of great struggle,” Crockett said in an accompanying statement. “The hard work in the oil and gas fields of West Texas. The single mother raising the children alone. The young man who works on a street corner because he thinks it's his only option. I'd be dishonest if I said I can't see the thread. Each of them feels invisible. I'm struck by the battles they're fighting internally and the ways they've become trapped by what America says it is.”

$10 cowboy will be released on April 26. Crockett will support the album with a tour that includes a lengthy run in Australia in February and festivals across North America.

Charley Crockett North American tour Dates:
January 23 – Park City, UT @ Marquis Park City
February 22 – San Antonio, TX @ San Antonio Stock & Rodeo
March 1 – Tempe, AZ @ Extra Innings festival
March 7 – Miami, FL @ Wynwood Marketplace
|April 5th – Memphis, TN @ Grind City Fest
April 11 – Riviera Maya, Mexico @ Avett Brothers on the Beach @ Hard Rock Hotel Riviera
April 19 – Miramar Beach, FL @ Moon Crush festival
April 20 – Biloxi, MS @ Crawfish Music festival
April 21 – Georgetown, TX @ Two Step Inn festival
April 27 – Indio, CA @ Stagecoach festival
May 20 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
May 21 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
May 23 – Calgary, AB @ Gray Eagle Event Center
May 25 – Enoch, AB @ River Cree Resort & Casino
May 27 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
May 29 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
May 30 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
May 31 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
June 1 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
June 3 – Albany, NY @ Empire Live
June 5 – Hampton, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
June 6 – Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre
June 7 – Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theater*
June 8 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center*
June 14 – Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
June 15 – Whitefish, MT @ Scout + Gather
June 17 – Great Falls, MT @ The Newberry
June 18 – Emigrant, MT @ The Old Saloon
June 19 – Cheyenne, WY @ The Lincoln
June 20 – Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass
June 22 – Columbus, OH @ Buckeye Country Superfest
June 23 – Columbus, OH @ Buckeye Country Superfest
June 28 – Pendleton, OR @ Jackalope Jamboree
July 20 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
July 28 – Control, VA @ FloydFest
August 3 – St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland Music festival
* with Hank Williams Jr.