The “hard times” that dapper singer-songwriter Charley Crockett sings about in “Welcome to Hard Times,” his eighth album in five years, aren’t those set off by the current global pandemic, but of dizzying, more personal life experiences—with enough subterranean episodes to have furnished him the plot of a picaresque novel. He uses them instead...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 08, 2020 10:52 UTC