Get your boots with spurs, snap shirts, and cowboy hats ready because we are closing in on another Charley Crockett album.
Crockett, who has now released six studio albums in the last four years, is getting better with age like a fine wine, or in this case, “a bottle of bluebird wine.”
Crockett is set to release Age of the Ram on April 3, and from the two singles that he has released so far, Crockett’s sound is still nostalgic and timeless.
Kentucky Too Long, the first song Crockett released from the album on February 13th, has already scooped up 804,000 listens on Spotify. The soul-filled and groovy jam makes for a smooth listen.
Now, on March 12, Crockett released Fastest Gun Alive. Fastest Gun Alive was also the title of a western movie released in 1956. With the western themed lyrics and sound, Crockett’s new single can now serve as the perfect theme song for the movie that came out 70 years ago.
The lyrics are handcrafted and the imagery in each stanza is beautiful.
“Down on the creek, where the crystal water flows, I thought I saw my life in the mountain snow.”
In anticipation of the new single, Crockett on social media, showed homage toward the old western film by Crockett publishing a photo showing the specialized holster technique used by Glenn Ford, the actor in the movie.
The connection of the song and film runs deep. Crockett sings of himself, or the character in the song, daydreaming of achieving being the ‘Fastest Gun Alive.’
“Then I fell asleep from the sun of a midday heat, dreamt about the title I had won.” The title being: the fastest gun alive.
Crockett’s character, who is constantly on the run, achieved what he wanted to achieve, but is living with regret.
“I’ve been wanted all my life, I can’t change these things I’ve done. Please forgive my tears in the sun.”
From the beginning to the ending, the whole song has rhythm and Crockett sings on the beat every time.
More western, swing and waltzes should be on the way when Crockett releases the full, 20-song album on April 3.