G.L. Crockett

There is a lone dark and white publicity photo of G.L. Crockett that appears like many an R&B performer picture from your middle-1960s; a sleepy-eyed countenance wedded from what is apparently a smirk, hands on chin, a gleaming match and an immaculate pompadour “conk work” hairdo to total the picture. We explore the mystery of the picture since when it involves hard info on G.L. Crockett, there actually isn’t very much else to be on. So far as blues study tells us, he resided in the Washington, D.C. region through the 1960s. Despite having a high Ten hit within the R&B graphs with “It’s a guy Down There” within the small Four Brothers label in 1965, he evidently passed away without ever submitting for an interview. As he apparently left out a documented legacy of just three . 5 singles, a full-career retrospective would flunk of being in a position to fill up an individual compact disc. However the music he left out has held his name alive among the enthusiasts of Dark rockabilly and rock and roll & move, a subgenre nearly bursting in the seams.