"This is a club where New York's social elite have shown up since 1955 to wine and dine and be entertained, where $150 will get you in the door and $200 will reserve one of the roughly 100 seats available for dinner. The menu consists mostly of a caviar list and a $95 per person prix fixe. The walls in the room are decorated with murals by Oscar-winning French artist Marcel Vertès. Its clientele has money, and Crockett knows how to speak the language of money."
""I love being asked, 'How do you navigate the music business, and not let the money get to you?'" Crockett told the crowd. "Man, I just spend it.""
""I found out that everybody in Brooklyn hates the G Train," he said of his New York busking days. "Those trains only come every 10 or 12 minutes. But, see, for a vagabond like me, that's exactly where I want to be. Because I had your ass.""
Charley Crockett performed a three-night solo acoustic residency at the Café Carlyle on Manhattan's Upper East Side, playing for a wealthy, long-established supper-club clientele. The Carlyle features steep dinner prices, murals by Marcel Vertès, and a history of elite patrons. Crockett acknowledged and joked about money, saying he spends it when asked how he resists its influence. The residency held personal meaning alongside his RodeoHouston headline and proximity to the Central Park bridge where he once busked. Crockett recalled New York busking anecdotes and spent pre-show time with his wife, Taylor Day Grace, who urged them to have fun.
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