Charley Crockett disputes the band Twin Temple's account of leaving his shows

Charley Crockett has given a different account of why Twin Temple came off two dates on his Age of the Ram Tour, and it does not match the one the band gave in July. In a social media post published on 18 August 2026 and written up by Taste of Country, the country singer said the pair invented the reason. He never dropped them for Satanic imagery, he wrote, and they "made it up and dragged me by a rope real good."

The two versions now sit side by side. Taste of Country reported in July that Twin Temple said Crockett removed them from the bill because of the Satanic imagery in their stage show, and that Crockett at the time did not directly dispute it, answering instead about artistic freedom and everyone following their own moral compass. His August post moved off that ground completely. Nothing either side has said publicly settles which account is right.

By Crockett's telling, the trouble began with production requests that the shows could not physically accommodate. That sent him to look harder at what the band's set involved, he said, and after a couple of days of thinking it over he cut them loose. He also said the duo sat on their public statement for days while they worked it out with their business people, timing it to land alongside a record they had coming and a headline tour of their own, and framing two dates as though a whole tour had been lost.

Crockett then went after the outlets that covered the split and the artists he said applauded from the sidelines while he was, in his own phrase, face down in the dirt. The only one he named was Jack White, who offered Twin Temple an opening slot in the aftermath. Crockett said White used the situation to sell tickets and that he lost a lot of respect for him, and asked why White had not been as outspoken twenty-odd years ago in the White Stripes, a band he said purposely avoided political issues.

White answered on 18 August, in a post Taste of Country wrote up the next day. He said he had never said anything about "this young buck" before, then posted the lyrics of Rappin' Duke in their entirety. That is a 1985 novelty rap record by Shawn Brown, built on a John Wayne parody, and White did not explain the choice. Taste of Country noted that the song takes swipes at younger artists and at Ronald Reagan moving from entertainment into politics.

The Age of the Ram Tour has been running since April and is booked well into the fall, with Margo Price, Nat Meyers, Pony Bradshaw, Kashus Culpepper and Sierra Hull among the acts opening dates on it. We covered Crockett's first answer to the backlash in July and Jack White taking the duo on as openers afterwards; the remaining dates are listed in the tour guide.