A large crowd gathers on a grassy lawn in front of an outdoor stage with a sweeping white canopy at sunset, with people sitting on blankets and standing to watch the event.
The BayCare Sound in Clearwater, Florida on June 18, 2025. Credit: Photo by Yvonne Gouglelet / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

This Clearwater show from Texas’ finest crooner and cowboy has been simmering since last March and a lot’s happened since its announcement.

Crockett, a descendant of Davy, has put out two solid albums and recently spoke up against attacks on Beyonce by telling country fans that have a problem with her new album that the Destiny’s Child principal is not their source of discontent.

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“The machine points to a black woman who’s making a statement about marginalized people being removed from the conversation altogether, and somehow we all act like the entire pop industry didn’t just ambush roots music. These ‘“’country boys’ been *singing* over trap beats for years,” he wrote in a statement. “So what’s different now?”

Come see him be unfiltered alongside Leon Bridges (they both play full sets), and make sure to get to the BayCare Sound early. The show is the 100th concert for the venue, which opened two years ago, and its operator, Ruth Eckerd Hall, is celebrating by giving a commemorative trucker hat to the first 100 attendees who visit the marketing table.

Tickets to see Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett play The BayCare Sound in Clearwater on Monday, Sept. 15 are still available and start at $40.50.

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This article appears in Sept. 11-17 2025.

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...