What started as a quiet booking decision has turned into one of the stranger standoffs of the summer, with Jack White and Charley Crockett trading shots across Instagram for a second straight day.

The dispute traces back to July, when Crockett pulled Satanic doo-wop duo Twin Temple from a pair of his shows. The two sides do not agree on why. Crockett has framed it as a production and audience issue, saying the arrangement was not right for an all-ages crowd, while flatly denying it was about the group's occult imagery. Twin Temple told a different story, and Crockett has accused them of inventing one, complaining that they "made it up and dragged me by a rope real good."

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White inserted himself into the fight not long after, offering Twin Temple an opening slot on his own tour, including a September 29 date in Los Angeles. For the duo, the offer landed as a rescue. Singer Alexandra James called it meaningful, saying, "Jack coming in and backing us up meant a lot to us."

Crockett clearly did not read the situation in the same way. On August 18, he returned to Instagram with a since-deleted post that took direct aim at White. He accused the wider music world of "dog whistling about religious and creative freedom," singled out White for amplifying the accusations against him, and questioned the sincerity of White's stance. "He used it to sell tickets too, and I lost a lot of respect for him," Crockett wrote, adding that White "wasn't so outspoken back when he was in the White Stripes 20-something years ago."

White let a day pass before answering. On August 19, he posted a response that opened with a taunt: "I never said nothing about this young buck before, but since he's trying to drag me into this here rodeo again, here's my official response to Cowboy Charley's accusations." Rather than argue, White posted the lyrics to "Rappin' Duke," Shawn Brown's 1984 novelty rap voiced by a cartoonish, cowboy-hatted John Wayne.

Crockett refused to let it sit. Later on August 19, he fired back with a lengthy post of his own. He framed his catalog as proof of substance over image. "I got 300 songs out and 150 unreleased plus a new record on the way which puts me about even with your entire career output in a third the time," he wrote.

From there, Crockett painted White's activism as performance. Crockett suggested it was easy to display radical icons and then "get in the Lamborghini and put your kids in private school." He also circled back to the origin of the whole affair, insisting the Twin Temple version of events was false and that the band "lied for publicity at my expense," with White happy to hand them a megaphone.

Two days in, both men are still feuding, and nothing suggests it will wind down anytime soon.