Charley Crockett rebuffs a condescending record-label exec in the video for “Music City USA,” the title track of his just released album.
sings in “Music City USA,” the title track of his new album. The video for the song underscores the cynicism of those lyrics and follows the throwback country singer as he makes his way — anonymously — through Nashville’s crowded Broadway district.
Bruce Robison, himself a Nashville outsider, cameos in the video as a slick record-label exec. “Charley, Charley, Charley,” he says condescendingly, “Every single one of those people down there want to be sitting in that chair. Do you know that? And I just don’t know if you’re ready to play the game.”
But Crockett has no interest in playing the game — not the one that makes prefabricated stars anyway. In the “Music City USA” video, he seeks out the bastions of the genre, like the Ryman Auditorium, Ernest Tubb’s record shop, and even the hidden gem the Nashville Palace. “I have a thing with Nashville,” the Texas nativein March, going on to recount how his vintage sound’s been received in town. “’Sixties country music’ are not popular words to say in 2021.
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