{"id":26679,"date":"2025-08-27T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:41:07","slug":"charley-crockett-on-why-outlaw-country-is-bigger-than-pop-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26679\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Crockett on Why Outlaw Country Is Bigger Than Pop Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCharley Crockett<\/a> has seen his name in a lot of headlines over the past week, thanks not only to his funky new album Dollar a Day<\/a>, but for an online feud<\/a> with the country singer Gavin Adcock. After Crockett posted his thoughts about authenticity in country music on Instagram, Adcock accused the Texas songwriter of being a \u201ccosplay cowboy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new interview with Rolling Stone\u2019s Nashville Now<\/a> podcast, Crockett shares more of his take on what constitutes country music, and disputes the notion that \u201coutlaw country\u201d is a subgenre of today\u2019s country. He says it\u2019s the other way around.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey call the outlaw movement a subgenre of commercial country, but today there\u2019s no doubt in my mind, that what they\u2019re calling pop country is most certainly a subgenre of outlaw,\u201d Crockett says on Nashville Now, adding that he thinks the pop-country industry is mostly vacuous.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think they stand for anything. They stand for Auto-Tune and songs written by a committee,\u201d he says. \u201cOutlaw was about standing up for your rights against a very rigid music business system. In a game where you throw money at a young artist, and if it doesn\u2019t work out, no problem, because there\u2019s 1,000 standing behind you, well, a controversial figure is unlikely to ever rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tCrockett and Adcock have gone back and forth for over a week now, with Crockett mostly refraining from answering Adcock\u2019s salvos. But in a Sunday Instagram post almost certainly directed at his foil, Crockett wrote: \u201cBlack music made me. I will not apologize. Raised by a single mama. I am not ashamed. Many men have tried to destroy me. I will not lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDownload and subscribe to\u00a0Rolling Stone\u2019s weekly country-music podcast,\u00a0Nashville Now, hosted by senior music editor Joseph Hudak, on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/a>Spotify<\/a>\u00a0(or wherever you get your podcasts). New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Margo Price, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, Ashley Monroe, and Gavin Adcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charley Crockett has seen his name in a lot of headlines over the past week, thanks not only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,21882,18,117,19,17,21883],"class_list":{"0":"post-26679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charley-crockett","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-nashville-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}