CHARLEY CROCKETT
Charley Crockett, The Met, Philadelphia, PA 6/22/2026
I was excited to see Charley Crockett in a venue like the Met because it felt like the perfect place for his star aura. The opener for the show was Nat Myers a blues musician from Kentucky. When the show started the guitarist walked over to a welcome flag and lit an incense candle and introduced the legendary Nat Myers. There was a cool opening voice over that would come back throughout the set that talked about having the blues that got a big cheer from the audience. People really loved the big blues riffs and powerful voice of Nat. He said that he liked Philly because if they don’t like you they’ll let you know about it. Later in the set he talked about his health issues and brought up how last year Charley Crockett auctioned off his car to help pay for his medical bills. When he left the stage he left to a huge ovation. The crowd continued that ovation when Charley took the stage, he walked right out plugged in his guitar and went into “Crazy Women Ridge”, a song with some fun guitar breaks that let him move around the stage. He had similar energy during the album titled “$10 Cowboy” where he would do his signature move of pointing his guitar and looking down through it like the scope of a gun. Early in the set Charley very genuinely said what a beautiful venue the MET was an how he was honored to play it and that Philadelphia is a great city which the fans loved to hear. A highlight in the set was when he played “Welcome to Hard Times” and “Hard Luck and Circumstances” back to back two of my favorite Charley Crockett songs. He did a cool cover of “Fire and Brimstone” that really showed off his vocal range and the Charley Crockett sign lit a fiery red and orange. He closed out the set with another album titled “Lonesome Drifter” but the crowd was able to will him back out to play his amazing cover of “Jamestown Ferry” and “Paint it Blue” where he thanked the crowd and ran off stage while the rest of the band finished out the song.
Shot and Written by Jonah van Bemmelen
