Now Charley Crocket appears to be getting ganged up on here…and this is entertaining.
The past two weeks is almost like we’re on the verge of a country music wrestle mania event…and I’m here for it. In case you’re ignoring the high school like girl fight that’s on public display thanks to the internet, let us catch you up here.
So, Charley decided to pen a lengthy Instagram post criticizing the current state of country music. Oh…and he defended Beyoncé in the process of writing his love letter to country music. He really struck a nerve by calling out Morgan Wallen. Which got Gavin Adcock all riled up (Morgan is his boy) and he called Charley out for defending Beyoncé.
Gavin called Charley a “cosplay cowboy” (which did make laugh a little to be honest) and as well as a “dipsh*it of the week,” among some other nice things. Charley of course fired back. The “cosplay cowboy” sent Gavin 60 roses along with a copy of his new album, “Dollar A Day”, while saying in a now-deleted Instagram post:
“Many men have tried to destroy me. I will not lose.”
This internet drama has of course sparked the age-old debate on what is real country music. It’s causing a lot of people to pick their side, name-calling is happening, along with pointing fingers and people are trying to prove what “real” country is. It’s anything sung by King George Strait by the way. Just so we’re clear before we keep going here.
Then on a beautiful Thursday afternoon, Paul Cauthen got into the ring and proceeded to post a five-minute rant on his Instagram story. He called out Charley for lying about his background, calling him a “student of fairytales.”
He didn’t hold back on voicing his thoughts…
“Charley boy, Charley boy, oh man. This fairytale’s getting outta hand. I know that you’re a student of country music and a student of all these fairytales that you have put out to the public, that’s really, I mean, just straight-up bullsh*t. I mean, I met you in uptown. You were DJing, and it was a whole different vibe going on then. And then from, I don’t know that point to let’s say 2020 or whatever, I guess you busked and lived in New Orleans, in San Benito, and you went over to your uncle or granddad, Davy Crockett’s house, and it’s just all bullsh*t, bud.
I mean, come on bro. Just play music and stop lying. I’m usually not the commotion stirrer, but I like to end bullsh*t. I really love to end it, and I want everybody to know that everything that’s been said about the past and you know, all this s***, it’s bullsh*t. And it’s just lies now. He kicks around, sings beats the sh*t out of his guitar.”
Paul went all in on pushing back on Charley’s long-time claim of being related to Davy Crockett, and called him a pathological liar…
”Stop being a pathological liar and thinking that you’re something that you’re not. You’re just a singer that’s ripping off the past, that’s bringing it in like it’s your blood and your sh*t. Well, you’re not related to Davy Crockett and you’re not f***ing Bob Wills. So just go play.”
There’s more…
”I gave you one of my granddad’s songbooks on my back porch in East Texas where I grew up in the house that I grew up in. And this is getting to a point where you’ve gotta just play music and shut up about all the past and all what you’d think about genres and everything. It’s bullsh*t.
And everything that you’ve said about your past is made up. It’s a lie, but that’s okay. You know, people lie, but it’s just bullsh*t, buddy. And you know it. And I’m not gonna let up because I’ve worked too hard in this business to watch somebody lie to the fans.”
After all of that…Paul went ahead and launched into a cute parody of “$10 Cowboy”…
“I’m a lyin’ cowboy
For a penny, I pine
Oh my gosh, I drink my moonshine, ride my saddle to work in Austin
And I get in my El Dorado Cadillac
And look-y there, take a picture of me with the old rigs in the back
Oh the train tracks, oh cigars
Oh I’ve been from here to f***ing Mars
I was born in this county, left this county, then I went to this county
Then I met Davy Crockett and he’s my daddy
You’re bullsh*t”
Paul did kind of sort of apologize for “being mean”…but then he closed out his rant by pointing out how Charley needs quit lying about his past…
“Charley, I love your music. I think you’re a great singer and performer. Wish you the best, but lying just doesn’t sit well with me. So just come out there and get on another podcast. Do your little Ted Talk and tell people, ‘Hey, you know, I’ve embellished the truth a little bit just so that I could get another leg up in the business.’ It sounds way better that I came from disparity and hoboing and train robing and shoot ’em up cowboy cap gun shit, but it’s just fairy tales.”
So, far Charley hasn’t responded…because this saga is a lot. I’ll give it to Whiskey Riff for staying on top of it all. They’re saints for their investigative journalism.