Charley CrockettWelcome to Hard Times

Dark, Gothic honky-tonk built on tremolo-shivering guitar, saloon piano, and echo-drenched production that conjures a spaghetti western. Cut after Crockett's open-heart surgery, the songs run with outlaws, prisoners, gamblers, and the brokenhearted. Run Horse Run gallops on outlaw menace. The Poplar Tree closes in full Southern Gothic shadow. Dan Auerbach co-wrote several cuts and you can feel the grit. Forged in the shadow of mortality and all the heavier for it. Dim the lights and lean in.