Nation singer/songwriter Charley Crockett has teamed with Willie Nelson for a brand new duet, “That’s What Makes the World Go Round,” which was co-written with Kullen Fox, Wealthy Brotherton and Taylor Grace.
As Crockett tells it, Nelson referred to as him whereas he was recording music at his Texas-based Pedernales studio and requested if he had any songs in want of a visitor look. “I instructed him I had lots,” Crockett recollects. “Hung up the cellphone, drove out to Billy Horton’s place, and wrote a pair on the spot. We fired ‘em off to Spicewood, the place he sang and took a experience on one which very subsequent day. Once I heard him are available singing on his first line, I shed a tear.”
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Crockett provides that listening to the sound of Nelson’s legendary acoustic guitar Set off on the recording elevated the expertise even additional. The artist has been pleasant with Nelson for a few years, having carried out “The Social gathering’s Over” on the latter’s 90th birthday concerts final 12 months on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He additionally recorded Nelson’s 1963 monitor “Dwelling Motel” on his 2022 album Lil’ G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley.
Crockett begins an Australian tour Jan. 27 in Tamworth. He may also carry out this 12 months at festivals resembling Stagecoach, Moon Crush, Buckeye Nation Superfest and the Avett Brothers’ Avetts on the Seaside vacation spot occasion in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
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