Charley Crockett at Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park 2023
Schedule
Fri Jun 23 2023 at 06:30 pm
Location
Des Moines Water Works Park | Des Moines, IA
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CHARLEY CROCKETT with Myron ElkinsFriday, June 23
Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park - Des Moines
Doors 5:30pm, Show 6:30pm
All Ages
Tickets: axs.com/events/476265
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Charley Crockett – The Man From Waco
Since self-releasing his 2015 debut A Stolen Jewel, Charley Crockett has distinguished himself as an artist extraordinarily in touch with his instincts. Turning out 11 albums in just seven years, the South Texas-born singer/songwriter has resolutely followed his vision, handling everything from honky-tonk to blues to folk with wholehearted ingenuity (an element that helped him earn the Emerging Artist of the Year prize at the 2021 Americana Music Awards). But while his ever-growing success has caught the attention of countless hitmaking and highly decorated producers, Crockett chose to continue forging his own distinct path for his twelfth album, The Man from Waco. The result: his most powerful and immediately compelling body of work to date, adding new intensity to his signature Gulf & Western sound and bringing even greater depth to his spellbinding storytelling.
Produced by Bruce Robison (Crockett’s manager and an acclaimed artist/songwriter in his own right), The Man from Waco took shape from a series of fast-and-loose sessions at Robison’s studio in Lockhart, Texas. “After we got about half the recordings down, Bruce said to me, ‘As your manager, it’s my job to tell you that you have the opportunity to work with just about anybody on this record,’” Crockett says. “But I’ve been in rooms with guys who’ve got 20 Grammys, and it’s my experience that a lot of them don’t see the artist for who they are. They’re more interested in sanitizing everything and watering it down to try to get a hit, and in the end all the magic gets lost. I don’t think a record like The Man from Waco could’ve been made if I’d gone in that direction.”
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Where is it happening?
Des Moines Water Works Park, 2251 George Flagg Pkwy,Des Moines,IA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: