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Now & Then: Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram and the reach of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Sunday, April 12, 2026 By Tom Osborne

Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram arrives as the third and final entry in his Sagebrush Trilogy, a 20-song, 45-minute set built around the outlaw figure Billy McLane and cut again with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles. The obvious move would be to compare it to some other modern revivalist country record, but Crockett is aiming farther back than that. This album is trying to turn country songs into a movie, or maybe into the memory of one, and that points straight to Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, the 1959 western cornerstone that helped teach later songwriters how to make myth feel personal.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Charley Crockett, Marty Robbins

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