OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW

Old Crow Medicine Show revitalized old-timey string bands for the 21st century, playing hillbilly tunes, bluegrass, blues, and folk with a rock & roll verve. Old Crow's spirited revivals helped shape the Americana movement of the 2000s in sound and spirit, ushering the past into the present with their enthusiastic rambles and hollers. "Wagon Wheel," the band's signature song, existed at this chronological crossroads: chief Crow Ketch Secor -- the only bandmember who has remained throughout the group's many incarnations since its inception in 1998 -- built the tune around a chorus Bob Dylan discarded in 1973. Once Darius Rucker turned "Wagon Wheel" into a smash hit in 2013, Old Crow Medicine Show turned into roots music superstars, winning a Grammy for Best Folk Album for 2014's Remedy. From that point onward, Old Crow Medicine Show grew creatively restless, offering such ambitious albums as the Dave Cobb-produced Volunteer in 2017 and the socially conscious Paint This Town in 2022.

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

Arriving in 2017, five years after Old Crow Medicine Show made the leap over to ATO Records, Best of Old Crow Medicine Show rounds up highlights from the three albums the group recorded for Nettwerk -- 2004's O.C.M.S., 2006's Big Iron World, and 2008's Tennessee Pusher -- and adds two unreleased songs, "Black-Haired Quebecoise" and "Heart Up in the Sky." This means Best of Old Crow Medicine Show contains "Wagon Wheel," the group's best-known song thanks to a smash cover by Darius Rucker in 2013, but the rest of the album shows that the group is hardly a one-trick wonder. Although the group has grown more accomplished over the years, these records snap. The earliest cuts can seem a little affected in their old-timey style -- "Tell It to Me," the cover of "Down Home Girl," a New Orleans R&B side everybody knows as a Rolling Stones song -- but they soon start sounding loose and muscular with "Alabama High Test," and by the end of the compilation, it's clear that they've established their own distinctive roots style. As introductions go, this one is hard to beat. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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

Old Crow Medicine Show performed a pair of Blonde on Blonde concerts at the Country Music Hall of Fame's theater in May of 2016, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's double album. Nearly a year later, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde arrived as their first release on Columbia Records. Containing cherry-picked highlights from the two concerts, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde finds the Americana group running through the entirety of Dylan's masterwork, and what makes the performance work is that they play with gusto and verve, not respectful reverence. Certainly, the group knows the album backwards and forwards, but that familiarity also means that they're free to turn some songs inside out. "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" is performed as a ballad, "Obviously 5 Believers" turns the blues song into bluegrass and they treat "Pledging My Time" in similar fashion, plus they give "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" a strong backbeat. Even when sticking largely to the original arrangements, the group performs with a giddiness that gives the music a fresh kick, and that energy is what makes this record something a little bit more than a run-of-the-mill tribute. Old Crow Medicine Show perform Dylan's songs as if they belonged to the band and, in a sense, that might be true: any album that survives 50 years belongs to the world at large, and what's fun about 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde is hearing how Old Crow Medicine Show hear an album you know by heart. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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

Clocking in at a lean 42 minutes, Live at the Ryman finds Old Crow Medicine Show playing to the storied Nashville venue, which will forever be known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Old Crow is keenly aware of this fact, sneaking a Minnie Pearl "How-Dee!" into their introductory montage, then tearing into a full-blooded, loose-limbed version of "Tell It to Me" that gets the album off to a rowdy start. From there, the band bounces between old favorites from their catalog and standards, playing at a fast clip, opening their stage to a number of guests and finding space for testifying and country corn from Ketch Secor. The blend of schtick and sincerity is firmly rooted in the Ryman's past, and it also makes of a hell of a party. If Secor sometimes succumbs to the temptation to ham it up, he does it with an audible grin, plus he finds an unflappable foil in Margo Price, who plays Loretta Lynn to Ketch's Conway Twitty on "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man." Molly Tuttle comes on-stage to sing on a raucous, open-hearted version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," but the testament to how good this record is lies within "Wagon Wheel." A song that has become a modern standard thanks to the Darius Rucker cover version, "Wagon Wheel" should sound tired, but Old Crow Medicine Show is clearly happy to play the tune out for six minutes, sweeping up the audience in a singalong that makes the joy connecting the band and the audience palpable and infectious. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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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