Revival Experience

Charley Crockett Takes His Texas Sound on a World Tour

April 6, 2019 | By Matt Joyce

On a recent sunny afternoon in Dripping Springs, Charley Crockett finished a song and looked out from the stage over the crowd scattered across a bright-green lawn. “I’ll tell you what,” said the Texas troubadour, a singular practitioner of soul-steeped honky-tonk and blues. “The grass looks a little greener for me today; the air smells a sweeter.”

That mid-March performance at Revival Experience, a one-day event held during Austin’s SXSW music festival, was sweet indeed for Crockett: It marked his return to the stage after an 11-week break during which he had two heart surgeries and a surgery to repair a hernia. The long-nagging hernia had prompted Crockett to schedule a medical appointment, and that’s when doctors discovered a congenital heart defect—one that had afflicted him since birth—that required open heart surgery and a January “vacation at the Seton Medical Center Hotel” in Austin, as he puts it.

Revival Experience Debuts in Dripping Springs with Rateliff, Griffin, Shakey Graves

March 12, 2019 | By Matt Joyce

South by Southwest, the annual summit of creative industries and popular culture that consumes downtown Austin for a week each March, is in full swing.

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