When is Charley Crockett's new album, '$10 Cowboy,' arriving in 2024?

"$10 Cowboy," Americana Music Award winner Charley Crockett's 13th album in 15 years, will arrive on Apr. 26, 2024. It will be his ninth consecutive release from Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers Records.

"A $10 cowboy is a country singer who made himself on a street corner in America. But the cowboy way, the cowboy mindset, applies to anyone who doesn't feel free, who feels fenced in and bound to something," Crockett said in a press statement about his forthcoming album.

The album arrived as the performer wrote the album, while on his tour bus, over two months during a year that saw him perform, domestically and internationally, roughly three times per week from April to December 2023.

The tracks, including the album's title single, are described as "raw, personal, vivid portraits of a country in transition."

"This material is written at truck stops, it's written at casinos, it's written in the alleys behind the venues, it's written in my truck parked up on South Congress in Austin. A ramblin' man like me, a genuine transient, is in a pretty damn good position to have something to say about America."

"Being out on the road gives you a first-hand experience of how different kinds of Americans see themselves as going through some kind of great struggle," Crockett continues. "The roughneck working the oil and gas fields in West Texas. The single mother raising kids by herself. The young man working a street corner because he thinks it's his only option. I would be dishonest if I said I couldn't see the thread. Each of 'em feel invisible. I am struck by the battles they are fighting internally, and the ways they have been entrapped by what America says they are."

"$10 Cowboy" was recorded at the 40-year-old Arlyn Studios in Austin, TX, where performers including Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Sublime, Neil Young and Les Paul have also recorded music.

Crockett and his long-time collaborator Billy Horton share production duties on tracks featuring his regular backing band, The Blue Drifters and musicians affiliated with the works of Dale Watson, Robert Earl Keen, Nelson, and more.

"When you get the right folks in the room, great players rise to the occasion. When that red light is on and the tape is rolling, you get the magic of a performance," Crockett adds.

Crockett's barnstorming touring success and continued critical acclaim follow back-to-back 2022 releases "Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley" and "The Man From Waco," inspired by the 1960s-era works of Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Marty Robbins, among many others.

2024 finds Crockett likely to complete a 12-month cycle of constant touring worldwide, including a month-long run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 14 in Australia, plus appearances at Stagecoach, Moon Crush Festival, Buckeye Country Superfest, FloydFest, Two Step Inn, and Avetts at the Beach in Riviera Maya, Mexico with the Avett Brothers and other guests, among other summer festivals.

More information on Charley Crockett is available at https://charleycrockett.com.

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