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Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show is an Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, that has been recording since 1998. They were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on September 17, 2013.[1] Their ninth album, Remedy, released in 2014, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.[2] The group's music has been called old-time, folk, and alternative country. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs.

Old Crow Medicine Show

1998–present

PJ George
Mike Harris
Morgan Jahnig
Dante Pope
Ketch Secor
Mason Via
Cory Younts

Joe Andrews
Critter Fuqua
Ben Gould
Kevin Hayes
Matt Kinman
Gill Landry
Chance McCoy
Jerry Pentecost
Robert Price
Willie Watson
Charlie Worsham

Bluegrass musician Doc Watson discovered the band while its members were busking outside a pharmacy in Boone, North Carolina,[i 1] in 2000.[i 2] With an old-time string sound fueled by punk rock energy,[3][4] it has influenced acts like Mumford & Sons[5][6] and contributed to a revival of banjo-picking string bands playing Americana music[6]—leading to variations on it.[4][7]


The group released their sixth studio album, Volunteer, through Columbia Nashville on April 20, 2018—coinciding with their 20th anniversary as a group. They released 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde on April 28, 2017 (their first album on Columbia Nashville).[8] Previous studio albums were Eutaw (2002), O.C.M.S. (2004), Big Iron World (2006), Tennessee Pusher (2008), Carry Me Back (2012),[9] Remedy (2014), and Volunteer (2017).[10] Their song "Wagon Wheel", a more or less traditional song written by Ketch Secor through a co-authoring arrangement with Bob Dylan,[11] was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013[12] and has been covered by a number of acts, including Darius Rucker, who made the song a top 40 hit.[13]


The band was featured along with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Mumford & Sons in the music documentary Big Easy Express, which won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 2013.[w 1] They performed on the Railroad Revival Tour across the U.S. in 2011.[14] They appeared at the Stagecoach Festival 2013[15] and multiple times at other major festivals, e.g., Bonnaroo Music Festival, MerleFest,[w 2]: 2000 : 2004 : 2008 : 2014  Telluride Bluegrass Festival,[w 3] Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival,[w 4]: 2004 : 2009  and Newport Folk Festival.[l 1][l 2]


They have made frequent guest appearances on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. The group received the 2013 Trailblazer Award from the Americana Music Association, performing at the Americana Honors & Awards Show.[16]

Albums[edit]

Carry Me Back (2012)[edit]

Carry Me Back was released July 17, 2012, on ATO Records. Recorded at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, produced by Ted Hutt,[w 7] the name derives from "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", former official state song of Virginia.[34]


"Levi" is "about a soldier who grew up in the wild hillbilly woods of Virginia,"[r 1] First Lieutenant Leevi Barnard from Ararat, Virginia who was "killed by a suicide bomber"[r 1] in Baghdad's Dora Market in 2009.[i 7] In the NPR broadcast where Secor heard the story, the late lieutenant's friends[34] "broke into Barnard's favorite song" . . "Wagon Wheel"[34] at his funeral.[i 5]

Old Crow Medicine Show performed on a float for the 2003 .[52]

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Their music video of "I Hear Them All" (from Big Iron World) was first-round finalist in both CMT Award categories in which it was nominated. Directed by Danny Clinch, the video was shot in the Mid-City area of New Orleans featuring local residents with inspirational stories about surviving Hurricane Katrina.

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For the show held November 1, 2007 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville they joined Uncle Earl, Sunny Sweeney, Todd Snider, The Avett Brothers, Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, the Hacienda Brothers, Elizabeth Cook, Amy LaVere, and Ricky Skaggs with Bruce Hornsby as performers on stage.[l 5]

Americana Music Award

They opened for the in 2009 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA; the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Pelham, AL; and the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY.

Dave Matthews Band

The band headlined at the ,[i 4] after earlier having performed at that institution's 75th-anniversary celebration,[53] and appeared in special New Year's Eve shows in 2009 (with special guest Chuck Mead)[l 6] and 2010[w 9] at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Grand Ole Opry

The music documentary , in which the band was featured along with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Mumford and Sons, won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in March 2013. Directed by Emmett Malloy, the video was produced by Bryan Ling, Mike Luba, and Tim Lynch under the S2BN Films label.[w 1]

Big Easy Express

Their recording of "" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013.[12]

Wagon Wheel

Old Crow Medicine Show was formally inducted into the at a special ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on September 17, 2013.[1] They join other group Opry members like Gatlin Brothers, Oak Ridge Boys, Osborne Brothers, and Rascal Flatts—and individual member acts Roy Clark, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, Alison Krauss, Loretta Lynn, Patti Loveless, Del McCoury, Charley Pride, and Ricky Skaggs.[w 10]

Grand Ole Opry

The group performed during the 12th Annual , which took place September 18, 2013 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, sharing stage with such acts as Stephen Stills, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, and Rodney Crowell.[16]

Americana Honors & Awards Show

Darius Rucker's version of "Wagon Wheel" was nominated for CMA Single of the Year in October 2013, along with ("Cruise"), Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ("Highway Don't Care"), Miranda Lambert ("Mama's Broken Heart"), and Kacey Musgraves ("Merry Go 'Round").[l 4]

Florida Georgia Line

Rucker sang "Wagon Wheel" to close out the televised CMA awards ceremony November 6, 2013.

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Old Crow Medicine Show performed on the soundtrack for the film in 2005, which was nominated for a number of awards—including two Academy Award nominations—winning several around the world. "Critter" Fuqua wrote "Take 'Em Away" while "We're All in This Together" was written by Ketch Secor and Willie Watson.[55]

Transamerica

They appeared in the American Roots Music series; "In the Valley Where Time Stands Still", a film about the history of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance;[w 8] and "Bluegrass Journey", a portrait of the contemporary bluegrass scene.[w 11]

PBS

They appeared in the musical documentary Big Easy Express, directed by Emmett Malloy, being made of The Railroad Revival Tour, which premiered March 2012 at the (SXSW Film) in Austin, Texas[l 7]—winning the Headliner Audience Award.[56]

South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival

Ketch Secor – vocals, fiddle, , banjo, guitar, cigar box guitar (1998-present)

harmonica

Morgan Jahnig – (2000-present)

upright bass

Cory Younts – , harmonica, keyboards, vocals (2013-present)

mandolin

Mason Via – guitar, guitjo, vocals (2021-present)

Mike Harris – guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, vocals (2021-present)

Dante Pope – drums, percussion, piano, vocals (2023-present)

PJ George – accordion, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, guitjo, drums (2023-present)

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BO.C.M.S. was re-released under the title Old Crow Medicine Show as an import in 2006.

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