Where do we begin with Charley Crockett’s new song? First off, there is not a single artist as consistent in releasing so much good music. Secondly, “Lonesome Drifter” is a soft, smoldering tale about a tumbleweed blowing down the highway. “Where bitter range wars raged endlessly, a lonesome drifter appeared,” reads the intro narrative card.
Crockett then emerges as that lonesome drifter, ever at the mercy of the open road and the horizon’s endless opportunities. “Lean on me brother, ‘cause I understand,” he confides. “You got that nine-pound hammer, swingin’ in your hand…” The words pound into the eardrums, like so many railroad nails breaking steel and puncturing wood and the earth below.
Inspired by working on California ganja farms several years ago, Crockett conjured up the “[song’s] section,” he says in a press statement. “When I arrived on the West Coast, I worked to stay out there as a drifter, so I could get away with playing music for a living. At night, I was doing heavy electric blues and hillbilly shit at local bars for six hours.”
Listen to “Lonesome Drifter” below.
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