Critter Fuqua (vocals/banjo/resonator guitar), Kevin Hayes (guitjo), Morgan Jahnig (upright bass), Ketch Secor (vocals/fiddle/harmonica/banjo), and Willie Watson (vocals/guitar/banjo) -- who are all from different states -- met in New York, hit the road, played before an impressed Doc Watson in front of a North Carolina pharmacy, and were promptly scheduled to play the folk icon's Merlefest. Old Crow Medicine Show then relocated to Nashville, where they found themselves gracing the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, opening for the likes of Dolly Parton and the Del McCoury Band.
The band signed to Nettwerk America in 2003, began crafting their own compositions among the jug band standards and reels that had become the backbone of the group, and went into the studio to make a record with Gillian Welch's other half, guitarist David Rawlings, at the helm. Old Crow Medicine Show's self-titled debut, which was recorded in RCA's legendary Studio B (Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings) and Woodland Sound Studios (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), arrived the following year. The group's second album, Big Iron World, was produced by Rawlings and appeared in August 2006. The band then switched producers, going with Don Was for 2008's Tennessee Pusher.
Carry Me Back, produced by Ted Hutt, was released four years later in 2012. In the summer of 2013, the band (now an octet) released the three-song EP Carry Me Back to Old Virginia, which consisted of the title track, a newly recorded version of "Ain't It Enough," and a cover of Alabama's "Dixieland Delight." Hutt returned to produce the group's 2014 effort, Remedy, an album heavily influenced by folk music that would go on to earn a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album of the Year.
Over the next few years, Old Crow Medicine Show continued to tour, and in early 2017 they released the compilation The Best of Old Crow Medicine Show. Not long afterward, they announced they had signed with Columbia Nashville. The first record the band released for the label was 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde, which consisted of Old Crow Medicine Show performing the legendary Bob Dylan album in its entirety at the Country Music Hall of Fame in May 2016. It appeared in April 2017. Coinciding with Old Crow Medicine Show's 20th anniversary, they recorded their sixth full-length, 2018's Volunteer, at Nashville's famed RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb; the album debuted at number one on Billboard's Bluegrass charts and 14 on the country chart. In 2019, the band released the concert album Live at the Ryman.
Early in 2020, Critter Fuqua parted ways with Old Crow Medicine Show, leaving Ketch Secor as the lone original founding member of the group. Secor wound up revamping the lineup in the next year. By the time the group released Paint This Town -- an album co-produced by the band and Matt Ross-Spang (John Prine, Jason Isbell) -- in April 2022, the lineup featured bassist Morgan Jahnig, guitarist Cory Younts, drummer Jerry Pentecost, multi-instrumentalist Mike Harris and multi-instrumentalist Mason Via. - James Christopher Monger
01 - [2000] Greetings From Wawa
01 - Greetings From Wawa - Reuben's Train
02 - Kitty Clyde
03 - Gospel Plow
04 - Beech Creek Dirge
05 - We Followed Girls
06 - Elkhorn Ridge
07 - Daisy On The Porch
08 - Harley In The Ballroom (Let's Go To Nunavut)
09 - A Little Number
10 - Old Red
11 - Tell Her To Come Back Home
12 - When Dey Wud No Crawfish
13 - Wow That Is Diverse
14 - Blackeyed Susie
15 - Waiting For Al
16 - Greasy Coat
17 - Granny Does Your Dog Bite
18 - Pour It On, Dock
19 - Worried Mary
20 - Goodbye Sweet Daisy
21 - Oh My Little Darling
22 - Six Rainbows Over Wawa
23 - Cumberland Gap
Tracks 05, 09, 15 & 22 taken from Jam 107.1 fm Wawa, ON.
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02 - [2001] EUTAW
01 - Raise A Ruckus
02 - Tear it Down
03 - Hesitation Blues
04 - Lonesome Road Blues
05 - That'll Be A Better Day
06 - Boll Weevil
07 - Down South Blues
08 - Cocaine Habit
09 - The Silver Dagger
10 - Trouble That I'm In
11 - Goodbye Booze
12 - Shack #9
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03 - [2003] Live
Recorded by Eliot Houser at The Station Inn on 23 April 2003.
01 - Johnny Get Your Gun
02 - All Night Long
03 - Can't Get Right Blues
04 - Ben Ward's Tune
05 - Hard To Tell
06 - My Bones Gonna Rise Again
07 - Sally Anne
08 - Fall On My Knees
09 - Trouble That I'm In
10 - Tell It To Me
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04 - [2004] O.C.M.S.
01 - Tell It To Me
02 - Big Time In The Jungle
03 - Poor Man
04 - Tear It Down
05 - Hard To Love
06 - CC Rider
07 - Trials & Troubles
08 - Hard To Tell
09 - Take 'Em Away
10 - We're All In This Together
11 - Wagon Wheel
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05 - [2006] Big Iron World
01 - Down Home Girl
02 - Cocaine Habit
03 - Minglewood Blues
04 - My Good Gal
05 - James River Blues
06 - New Virginia Creeper
07 - Union Maid
08 - Let It Alone
09 - God's Got It
10 - I Hear Them All
11 - Don't Ride That Horse
12 - Bobcat Tracks
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06 - [2008] Tennessee Pusher
01 - Alabama High-Test
02 - Highway Halo
03 - The Greatest Hustler Of All
04 - Methamphetamine
05 - Next Go 'Round
06 - Humdinger
07 - Motel In Memphis
08 - Evening Sun
09 - Mary's Kitchen
10 - Crazy Eyes
11 - Tennessee Pusher
12 - Lift Him Up
13 - Caroline
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07 - [2012] Carry Me Back
01 - Carry Me Back
02 - We Don't Grow Tobacco
03 - Levi
04 - Bootlegger's Boy
05 - Ain't It Enough
06 - Mississippi Saturday Night
07 - Steppin' Out
08 - Genevieve
09 - Country Gal
10 - Half Mile Down
11 - Sewanee Mountain Catfight
12 - Ways Of Man
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08 - [2014] Remedy
01 - Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer
02 - 8 Dogs 8 Banjos
03 - Sweet Amarillo
04 - Mean Enough World
05 - Dearly Departed Friend
06 - Firewater
07 - Brave Boys
08 - Doc's Day
09 - O Cumberland River
10 - Tennessee Bound
11 - Shit Creek
12 - Sweet Home
13 - The Warden
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09 - [2017] Best Of
01 - Wagon Wheel
02 - Tell It To Me
03 - Down Home Girl
04 - Alabama High-Test
05 - Big Time In The Jungle
06 - CC Rider
07 - Take 'Em Away
08 - Humdinger
09 - Fall On My Knees
10 - My Good Gal
11 - I Hear Them All
12 - Caroline
13 - Black Haired Quebecoise
14 - Heart Up In The Sky
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10 - [2017] 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde
01 - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
02 - Pledging My Time
03 - Visions Of Johanna
04 - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
05 - I Want You
06 - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
07 - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
08 - Just Like A Woman
09 - Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
10 - Temporary Like Achilles
11 - Absolutely Sweet Marie
12 - 4th Time Around
13 - Obviously 5 Believers
14 - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
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11 - [2018] Volunteer
01 - Flicker & Shine
02 - A World Away
03 - Child Of The Mississippi
04 - Dixie Avenue
05 - Look Away
06 - Shout Mountain Music
07 - The Good Stuff
08 - Old Hickory
09 - Homecoming Party
10 - Elzick's Farewell
11 - Whirlwind
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12 - [2019] Live At The Ryman
01 - Welcome To The Ryman
02 - Tell It To Me
03 - Shout Mountain Music
04 - Take 'Em Away
05 - Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer
06 - CC Rider (feat. Lee Oksar)
07 - Sixteen Tons
08 - Methamphetamine
09 - Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man (feat. Margo Price)
10 - Wagon Wheel
11 - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (feat. Charlie Worsham & Molly Tuttle)
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13 - [2022] Paint This Town
01 - Paint This Town
02 - Bombs Away
03 - Gloryland
04 - Lord Willing And The Creek Don't Rise
05 - Honey Chile
06 - Reasons To Run
07 - Painkiller
08 - Used To Be A Mountain
09 - DeFord Rides Again
10 - New Mississippi Flag
11 - John Brown's Dream
12 - Hillbilly Boy
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