"I Wanna Cry" - Charley Crockett || Young Americana Series HD

Between label PR strategies and crowd-funding campaigns, most artists feel fortunate to release a new album every two to three years. But throwback country and R&B artist Charley Crockett aims to put out music as fast as he can write it or collect it, and he works quickly. The latest is a covers project called Lil G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee, which follows 2016’s In The Night, while yet another album is in the can for next year. He says he’s just trying to follow the precedent set by his musical heroes. "Well, I love to be productive. I look up to people like Ernest Tubb. He had 50 studio albums. Loretta Lynn did too. And we live in an era where it’s like, people will tell you you’re lucky to put out three records and have a seven year career. I’ve heard that before and I’m not saying it’s true. When I’m sixty-something years old, I know all that’s going to matter to me is if I’m proud of the records I’ve made. And you know, no artist is the same person six months later. I like how you said that and I don’t like to sit on stuff. There’s thing you have to do and I have to practice patience, which when I was younger I didn’t practice and I do have good patience now but I like to be active. I love writing original songs and I have a lot of songs but I like recording other people’s songs just as much. A lot of George Jones and Etta James’ biggest hits they didn’t even have a hand in, but boy they could interpret that song." - Charley Crockett http://www.rootsradio.com/youngamericana/ http://www.charleycrockett.com/