Charley Crockett wearing a cowboy hat and denim jacket, standing on a coastal cliffside at sunset with the ocean in the background.
Charley Crockett Credit: Bobby Cochran

Charley Crockett’s dual semi trucks are pulling into the Seminole Hard Rock this week on another stop of what feels like a never ending tour for the 41-year-old self-proclaimed descendent of Davy.

Arriving ahead Age of the Ram, the third and finally piece of his Sagebrush Trilogy, Crockett, a country singer, is in the zone, appearing at The Grammys recently, and occasionally triggering MAGA types when he speaks out against the state of the country not just in song (“Kentucky Too Long”) but in social posts, too.

“The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos,” he wrote last month.

The transmission from Super Bowl Sunday continues to skewer the “felon running this country” and hurts feelings of people making excuses for the oppressors at the wheel of the U.S.A.

“If you can sleep at night licking their boots that’s between you and yours, but that type of thinking isn’t freedom,” the Welcome To Hard Times singer added. “It’s mental slavery.”

Crockett’s sets—and he’s done quite a few in the Bay area now— include much less banter, and pull from a catalog that’s about 20 albums deep at this point.

Tickets to see Charley Crockett play Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa on Wednesday, March 11 are still available for $95.15 and up.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...