{"id":49510,"date":"2025-10-19T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/charley-crockett-sings-for-the-caviar-crowd-at-cafe-carlyle-review\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:55:31","slug":"charley-crockett-sings-for-the-caviar-crowd-at-cafe-carlyle-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/charley-crockett-sings-for-the-caviar-crowd-at-cafe-carlyle-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Crockett Sings for the Caviar Crowd at Cafe Carlyle: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tCharley Crockett<\/a> is making a career out of being underestimated, either by the business or his very own fans. This past week, he proved that again with a three-night residency at one of Manhattan\u2019s most exclusive and longest-running supper clubs, the Caf\u00e9 Carlyle on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is a club where New York\u2019s social elite have shown up since 1955 to wine and dine and be entertained, where $150 will get you in the door and $200 will reserve one of the roughly 100 seats available for dinner. The menu consists mostly of a caviar list and a $95 per person prix fixe. The walls in the room are decorated with murals by Oscar-winning French artist Marcel Vert\u00e8s. Its clientele has money, and Crockett knows how to speak the language of money.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love being asked, \u2018How do you navigate the music business, and not let the money get to you?\u2019\u201d Crockett told the crowd. \u201cMan, I just spend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cafe Carlyle residency, which Crockett played solo and acoustic, meant as much to the South Texas native as his March slot headlining RodeoHouston<\/a> to upwards of 50,000 people. The bridge in Central Park where Crockett first busked in New York in the late 2000s is only a few hundred yards from his residency.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI found out that everybody in Brooklyn hates the G Train,\u201d he said of his New York busking days. \u201cThose trains only come every 10 or 12 minutes. But, see, for a vagabond like me, that\u2019s exactly where I want to be. Because I had your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Carlyle Hotel is perhaps best-known for Bemelmans, the cocktail bar that hosts the most exclusive Met Gala afterparties each May and was once a frequent haunt of Waylon Jennings, one of the handful of artists Crockett reflects in his own career. Before Crockett\u2019s first 90-minute set of this residency, he passed the time in his room at the Carlyle alongside his wife, Taylor Day Grace, who saw Crockett off with a simple suggestion: \u201cWe should probably have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, Crockett carried his guitar to the stage and kicked off \u201cGame I Can\u2019t Win\u201d from his Lonesome Drifter<\/em> record. It\u2019s a tune about learning and dodging the high-stakes, high-money music industry, with lines like \u201cYou didn\u2019t hear it from me\/they don\u2019t like it when you\u2019re free\/Your check ain\u2019t never coming in\/I\u2019ve always loved a game I can\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI realize a lot of you paid good money to be here, and I apologize for that,\u201d Crockett cracked from the stage to the approval of the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis set was heavy on songs from both of the albums he dropped in quick succession this year, Lonesome Drifter and Dollar a Day. Highlights included \u201cThe Life of a Country Singer\u201d and \u201cWoman in a Bar,\u201d the latter of which Crockett dedicated to Grace. While he passed on addressing his late-summer row<\/a> with Gavin Adcock, Crockett had no problem reminding the crowd often of his country music bona fides. \u201cI ain\u2019t left, and I ain\u2019t right,\u201d he asserted. \u201cI\u2019m on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe notion that the crowd was only filled with regulars is misguided, though. A sizable portion were longtime Crockett fans and some traveled from states away to catch the show. Representatives from New York-based Island Records \u2014 the label on which Crockett released both Lonesome Drifter<\/em> and Dollar a Day<\/em> \u2014\u00a0mingled, too. Crockett delighted in the two albums, both produced by Shooter Jennings (plus a third on the way in the spring, which will make three albums in a year on Island).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI do business in New York, because New York can tell Nashville what to do,\u201d Crockett said, \u201cbut Nashville, as much as they want to, cannot tell New York what to do. And, being a Texan, I like that.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cOne night I had a vision,\u201d he continued, addressing the audience. \u201cMy whole life in the business flashed before me, and I realized that all the strings were being pulled up here. I woke up that morning with great clarity, because I thought I had been let in on a secret that nobody else knew. Of course, like everybody else, I ended up learning the hard way that everybody pays their dues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJosh Crutchmer is a journalist and author whose latest books, <\/em>Never Say Never<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Red Dirt Unplugged<\/em><\/a> are available via Back Lounge Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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