Chords for Charley Crockett 2018 Interview on The Texas Music Scene

[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [F#] Howdy, y'all.
I'm Charlie [A] Crockett, and this is the Texas Music Scene with your little
[Em] buddy, [A] Ray Benson.
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Welcome back, y'all.
[E] We're super [D#m] excited to feature our next artist on [A#] the show, Mr.
Charlie
Crockett.
A little blues, soul, R&B, and yes, even straight [D#] up honky-tonk.
[D#m] It all fits in
Charlie's bag.
[Fm] Now, this South Texas native's [A#m] styles are as varied as his musical journey.
Just check him out for yourself.
_ _ _ _ [D#] _ [G#] What you doing over there with that camera, man?
[D#m] _ _ _ [A#m] _ Lazy and fine, situations always play for [D#m] my D's.
_ _ [Fm] _ D's in the [D] night, [A#m] in the night, in
the night, in the dark and lonesome night, in [D#m] the night, in the night, in the dark and lonesome night.
[A#m] Yeah, In The Night is a pretty good example of kind of what I've been doing as a musician,
_ [D#m] which is, you know, half of those songs are [E] originals and half of them [Fm] are covers.
[C#] [B] And
that's how I kind of am as an artist.
[F#] I love interpreting other people's songs as [D#m] much
as I like writing them.
And I think you got to learn somebody else's good song to be able
to write a good one yourself.
We live in [A#m] that era where I'm as influenced by Bill Withers as I am by Hank Williams Sr.
[D#m] You know, I mean, it's hard to imagine that being [F] possible in an earlier [A] generation.
Honky
Tonk [G] stations will play a couple of my songs on there like, Look [Bm] What You Done.
And then
we can get on KXT for something [Em] that's more [A] soulful, kind of rockin' type of tune like
In The Night.
_ And that's just the way I [Em] learned how to play music.
I never was actively trying
to put [Bm] all these genres together.
It's just street playing really [F#m] does, it comes together
in a melange, you know, [B] a gumbo.
But the song on there that's gone the farthest for [Bm] me is a song called I'm Not Afraid.
And
that's really what got me my first attention, like [A] completely out of obscurity. _
And darling, _ I'm [Bm] unafraid to, not afraid to love you. _
Not [A] afraid. _ _ _ _ _
I [C#m] mean, I was born in South Texas, [Bm] you know, so I have the, got that background of being
from the [D] valley, you know, same area as [A] Freddie Fender out in this very rural agricultural
area.
[E] But the story of music [C#m] for me really starts [G] with New Orleans.
My uncle lived [D] there,
was working [C#m] at a restaurant in the French [F#] Quarter.
I started living with [A] him when I
was young, kind of going back and forth between there [E] and Dallas when my mama [A] moved up.
And
that's what exposed me to [Bm] street music was being in the French Quarter all the time because
of those players up and down Royal Street.
And then I started [A] playing in the street.
That's where I first heard Hank Williams, drinking songs, was on the street there.
[G] _ My
buckets got a hole in it.
And with New Orleans, if you get into that music culture, you're
going to get into that traveling [F#m] culture.
And that's where I started hitchhiking, hopping
trains and stuff, was with the other players that I was hanging out with, playing in the
street.
[Fm] And that's how I got up to [C] New York City, [G] _ [E] was hitchhiking and stuff.
And then
I started playing on the subways in New York [F#m] City, applying a lot of the New Orleans stuff
that I knew.
You get [A] in, play the song, and get out before they [Em] realize what you're doing,
you know.
[Am] I like to keep them short, you know.
People [E] ask me what my songs are about, and
I say they're about [F#m] two or three minutes.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ At the time, in the night, we were still pushing that [Am] record real hard and wanted to give it
its full life to get out there in front of people and see what maybe would come our way
from the [D] response to the record.
And I wanted to cut this album.
And [A] my [Bm] manager, J [A].R., was
like, well, [E] if you do something, just do it as a side [B] name deal.
And [C#] so I decided to call
it Lil' [F#] GL's Honky Tonk Jubilee.
And [G#m] Lil' GL is a nickname that my friend Jay [F#] Moeller
gave me.
And GL Crockett is where he got the name from.
And that guy is like a [D#m] 50s, 60s
obscure R&B guy from [B] Mississippi.
He would just always clown around.
We could be related.
He would be calling me Lil' GL when we were first cutting in the [F#] studio.
[C#] And I liked that
as a pseudonym, you know.
And so I just [F#] went over to my friend Billy Horton's place outside
of Austin and [D#m] said, hey, I want to do this record.
[B] And he just called up all the best
honky tonk dudes that he knew in town.
And my friend [C#] Jay Moeller, who plays drums, [F#] is
the guy that got me over there.
And so [B] that was just done in three days.
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The one that I felt [F#] would do the best was Jamestown Ferry.
We went ahead and made a
music video for that at the Rolling Stone premiere.
[D#m] And it's been doing real good for
[F#] us.
Brendan Lee's singing [D#m] on it.
[B] It's got the sweep and pedal steal on there.
I [C#] just
love that song.
You know, [F#] it was a hit for Tanya Tucker in 1972.
[B] The dudes that play
[F#] with me out on the road, _ half of those guys played on the record prior to that called
In The Night [C#] [D#m] that we did.
And then the new record that I [G#m] just cut in [B] Memphis, all those
guys are on that too.
And they're [Bm] so versatile, like [C#] my live band, that we [G] can just be straight
cooking boogie blues and then we can switch [C] over and be doing George [D] Jones, you know,
tearing your beer honky tonk.
[Em] You know, and just versatile cats, man.
That's that deep
element scene, you know, that's where I met most of them, [G] was in the deep element scene.
[A#] People call [Em] me a blues artist and then other people who see me as a country artist, [G] you
know, it's funny, you know, some people will say, well, that's not blues, that's country.
Other people [C] say, no, that's not country, that's blues.
And I mean, if Hank Williams
[D] wasn't a blues singer, [G] I ain't from Texas, you know?
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Oh, [G] you darling.
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