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Holy mackerel, what a story. Link here.
And this is why I love Texas.
Raised by a single mother with an older brother and sister, Crockett grew up in a trailer park in Los Fresnos, Texas.
He has claimed to be a descendant of Davy Crockett, mixed-race, and Jewish. His mother relocated the family to Dallas, and Crockett spent the summer months with his uncle, who lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Upon leaving high school at the age of 17, Crockett decided to travel with his guitar acquired by his mother from a pawn shop. Crockett noted, "I taught myself how to play and started to write songs immediately, without any chord knowledge or anything. I didn't know what key I was in for 12 years, but my ear was really good, and I could play in any key and any chord. I just didn't know what it was."
His early musical influences came from hearing hip hop, and he became fascinated with the samples used. Crockett said, "I got into Curtis Mayfield through samples of his songs by other artists, and Nina Simone was through a sample. Even J. Cole, I was listening to a song of his ("Kenny Lofton"), and it was based on the sample from the Manhattans version of 'Hurt.'"
Crockett played music on the streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans and in Deep Ellum, Dallas, as a teenager. Later, he traveled further afield by hitchhiking and riding freight, and by 2009, he was busking in New York City.
As he improved his performance skills, Crockett organized a street band called the Trainrobbers, which caught the attention of a Manhattan-based representative for Sony Music. He signed the 26-year-old Crockett to a two-year management contract, although he rejected a publishing deal.
Eventually tired of life on the streets and the pending expiration of the contract, Crockett relocated to Northern California, where he combined working on farms and communes with performing for three more years.
Crockett then existed on the streets in Paris, France, for a year, and briefly lived in Spain and Morocco. In January 2025, Crockett reportedly had signed with Island Records, and released his first album via the label, Lonesome Drifter, on March 14. The album includes 12 tracks, co-produced with Shooter Jennings, including a new version of his cover of "The Jamestown Ferry" and a cover of Terry Stafford's "Amarillo by Morning."
Awards:
In September 2023, Crockett was nominated for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year at the 2023 Americana Music Honors and Awards. He received his first Grammy Award nomination in 2025 for $10 Cowboy.
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