June 30th, 2020
Charley Crockett has shared a new music video for the
single, “Run Horse Run”. The song is set to appear on the rising country
singer-songwriter’s latest album, Welcome to Hard Times, his seventh
in five years.
The album, due out on July 31st via Thirty Tigers,
finds the up-and-comer continuing to hold true to the vintage 70’s
country-western movement that is currently seeing a revitalization through
artists like Crockett, Colter Wall, and more.
The video, co-directed by Crockett and Bobby Cochran,
is also itself an ode to a bygone era of fetishism of the American frontier.
Part Quentin
Tarantino, part Sergio Leone, “Run Horse Run” is
immediately steeped in the tradition of the Spaghetti Western genre. While that
term typically conjures up images of gratuitous bloodshed on fake Western sets
built in Italy,
Crockett’s “Run Horse Run” is anything but phony.
Much like Clint Eastwood‘s iconic role of
the Man
with No Name, which he reprised throughout several of the most
popular Westerns of the time, “Run Horse Run” comes as part of a cinematic
universe that finds Crockett playing the same lonesome traveler. This video
finds his character in constant motion, as he chases after the same mysterious
yellow phone that pops up in all of the videos for Welcome to Hard
Times. Crockett said of the inspiration for this video,
When I’m in Las Vegas I
like to sit at the bar and watch all the races on the screens inside the Wynn Casino.
There’s a comfort I find in knowing those horses are running. I remember
watching people place bets on the races in the French quarter. All the old time
gamblers pouring over the news papers trying to get a fix on who’s thoroughbred
was gonna come through. It’s a wild chance to take because with horses it’s
really anybody’s guess. And there’s so many different ways to bet. There’s a
lot of cheating going on too. A champion horse might retire to green pastures.
The forgotten one’s don’t always fair so good. That reminds me a lot of the
game I’m playing.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5HkaRABAU
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