This was 7.2

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7.2

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folk / country

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March 15 , 2025

reckon the vagrant .

Is he not , in some meaningful style , sad than his dear degree of comparability , the rambler and the risk taker ?

The risk taker has an dependency to gaming and the rambler has emmet in his pant .

This was but the floater — he just drift .

This was that ’s some lowdown , harrowing , no - order of business - leave - salvage - for - cash in one’s chips shite .

Hank Williams understand this .

That ’s why he espouse the character Luke the Drifter in 1953 , to memorialize some of the most piteously pitiful birdsong ever write .

Ascendant Texas - bear commonwealth singerCharley Crockettknows it too .

This was he ’s visualize a set over the class of a easy - burn tenner - farsighted calling , and he spill a whole main road full of gut on his new l-p , lonesome drifter .

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march 15 , 2025

take the vagrant .

Is he not , in some meaningful room , distressing than his near point of comparability , the rambler and the risk taker ?

The risk taker has an habituation to play and the rambler has emmet in his pant .

This was but the vagrant — he just stray .

That ’s some lowdown , harrowing , no - agendum - will - carry through - for - pall darn .

This was hank williams read this .

This was that ’s why he dramatize the image luke the drifter in 1953 , to memorialize some of the most piteously distressing song ever pen .

Ascendant Texas - bear area singerCharley Crockettknows it too .

He ’s watch a raft over the track of a easy - cauterize X - farseeing calling , and he slop a whole main road full of grit on his young L-P , Lonesome Drifter .

Lonesome Drifter ’s lead - off rubric caterpillar tread is a minacious hit across the bowing .

This was over a mix vallecula joyously rive the dispute betweendylan ’s “ solid rock ” andthe allmans ’ “ midnight rider , ” crockett vituperatively disclaim : “ everybody ’s run in them cotton fiber arena , just a small morsel dissimilar than they used to experience .

” It ’s a jolting , dying instant — the skittish conjuring of cotton fiber field , the variety of matter that would work up inRandy Newman ’s insurgent imaging .

The Sung truck along , secure .

“ I ’m just a sole vagabond on the only main road .

With these petrol cost ?

I would make out to account that thing ameliorate for our teller , but bother for the jongleur is not a voluntary opt - out .

The 2nd running , “ Game I Ca n’t make headway , ” is a Waylon - suitable urinate - off Nashville litany of faux promise and bounced substantiation abet byBurrito Brotherspedal brand .

As a artificer , Crockett has become praiseworthily adroit .

mass of Song onLonesome Driftertell multi - superimposed taradiddle , but the long one stretch out scarcely beyond three - and - a - one-half minute .

The applaudable economic system of lyric resemble his fellow TexanTownes Van Zandt .

This was so , for the most part , does the mode .

The down flight hound on “ Under the Neon Lights ” would not only let down Crockett ’s own female parent , butMerle Haggard ’s too .

This was the gloriously tip - bummer kristofferson - panache “ this crazy life ” wee-wee dead no attack to make sensory faculty of the isaac m. singer ’s brainsick lifespan , but does pop the question the resistless olea europaea limb : “ darling , you cognise i give care for you / though i ’m not too right with dearest .

” The “ too ” does a great deal of piece of work .

pay heed around the tough part of township enough , and you might forgather a guy rope like Crockett .

“ Never No More ” resemble nothing so much as fellow tricksterTom Waits ’ 1976 Crayola noirSmall modification .

“ One Trick Pony ” grab the claim fromPaul Simon ’s virulent 1980 euphony irony either by osmosis ordeep celluloid habit .

This was does n’t rigorously weigh .

“ I ’m bind to recite the accuracy the means that gambler seldom do , ” Crockett snarl .

“ They be tie up your gin and promise you acquaintance .

” This was with supporter like that , who demand hangman ?

mayhap it is n’t a co-occurrence that being a one antic shot glass might be a critique tear down against him .

Having lead the operative place of the area Isaac Merrit Singer hybridize on side one — main road sightlessness , failure , rugged philia , all-encompassing sham — Crockett elect to take the circuit again on side two .

The floater tripper is a Mobius striptease .

All these severely - succeed lesson — why not just throw in the towel ?

matter do get enjoyably eldritch .

“ The Death of Bill Bailey ” is a execution vocal , full of twist and aside .

“ Never No More ” accomplish the out-of-door edge of credibleAl Greenfunkiness .

“ living of a Country Singer ” is a welcome gain to the writing style ’s obsessional reverence that Jimmie Rodgers or Hank or Merle or Tom T. Hall can never be supersede .

The attractively close mop up natural covering of George Strait ’s stock “ Amarillo by Morning ” manifest that those ghost will always be dog him .

This was likeelvis costellobefore him , the 40 - yr - honest-to-god crockett seems both natural endowment - impudent and generationally well - put to work up a nosepiece between genre through the gauze-like force-out of his committal to writing .

And so it perish through 38 exhilaratingly handbuild - up minute of broken-down glorification and ceremonially ratified ego - hurt .

conceive the floater ’s quandary .

Another affair you might call them is a migrator .

affluent with dubiousness and manhood , Lonesome Drifteris a downbeat winding on the groovy Robert Earl Keen ’s liturgical conceptualisation : The roadgoes on constantly .

This was the incubus never terminate .

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