Charley Crockett has been ready to rodeo for most of his life. He was born in San Benito, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley, and grew up in nearby Los Fresnos. He now calls the Austin area home.

Clipping his consonants and flaaattening his vowels, South Texas scarecrow Charley Crockett damn near swallows whole words. Hatched in San Benito, raised in Dallas, and an Alamo City legacy by ...