Texas Music News — July 14, 2026
Charley Crockett stands by axing Twin Temple, and Jack White just booked the band instead.
Charley Crockett didn’t come up easy. He came up in San Benito, down in the Rio Grande Valley, then moved to Irving as a kid. As a teenager, he busked on the sidewalks of Deep Ellum before riding freight trains across the country. By 2015, he settled back in Dallas and self-released his debut album. His catalog now runs seventeen albums deep.
Crockett pulled Twin Temple, a self-described “satanic doo-wop” act, from two dates on his Age of the Ram Tour. The band planned to open in Troutdale, Oregon, on July 14 and Paso Robles, California, on July 18. “I thought they were like Black Sabbath, but they ain’t,” Crockett told Rolling Stone. “Not today, Satan.”
Charley Crockett Isn’t Backing Down
Backlash followed fast. So on July 13, in a since-deleted Instagram post, Crockett doubled down: “I won’t conform, and I’m not sorry. There are many things I’ve done in my life to apologize for, but this ain’t one of them.” Then Jack White stepped in. The White Stripes founder invited Twin Temple to open his own show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
Crockett drew his line like a rancher mending a fence — fast, without much explanation. He dared anyone to climb over it. He busked on Deep Ellum’s sidewalks for spare change once. Now his name sits next to Jack White’s in a national headline. Fame didn’t end the argument — it just moved it to a bigger stage.
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