Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show

by Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show

by Old Crow Medicine Show

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Overview

Old Crow Medicine Show is an all-acoustic quintet from four states whose members met in New York City and moved to Nashville. Their storied beginnings include a North American cross-continent ramble while they learned their instruments and how to play together, eventually ending up playing on the street in front of the Grand Ole Opry before being asked to the stage some weeks later. Their self-titled debut album is equal parts Woody Guthrie's dust bowl weariness and Cisco Houston's rambling code of the road, Phil Ochs' view of a passing America, the Kingston Trio's wide-eyed enthusiastic earnestness, the New Christy Minstrels' sense of community, Doc and Merle Watson's home-grown blues as informed by Bill Monroe, Beat Generation lamentations, forlorn 1960s idealism, and the musical mindset that fueled America's original folk revival from the 1950s as it moved toward rockabilly. In other words, this record is informed by ghosts but executed in flesh, blood, sweat, and laughter. Whether the tunes are covers from antiquity ("CC Rider," "Poor Man," "Tell It to Me") or originals by fiddler and vocalist Ketch Secor and his songwriting and singing partner, Willie Watson ("Trials & Troubles," "Hard to Tell," "We're in This Together"), the feel is the same: passion, humor, and a relentless drive to get to the heart of a tune and put it across. There is so much enthusiasm, willingness and fire here, that it would be hard to do anything but want to sing along. Thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully raw and sinewy, Old Crow Medicine Show may be evoking the sounds of the old string bands, but they do it with a crackling rock & roll energy. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date: 02/10/2004
Label: Nettwerk America / Nettwerk
UPC: 0067003034920
Rank: 23744

Tracks

  1. Tell It to Me
  2. Big Time in the Jungle
  3. Poor Man
  4. Tear It Down
  5. Hard to Love
  6. CC Rider
  7. Trials & Troubles
  8. Hard to Tell
  9. Take 'Em Away
  10. We're All in This Together
  11. Wagon Wheel

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Old Crow Medicine Show   Primary Artist,Vocals
Gillian Welch   Guest Artist,Drums
Willie Watson   Banjo,Guitar,Vocals
Critter Fuqua   Banjo,Guitar,Vocals,Bottleneck Guitar
Morgan Jahnig   Bass (Upright)
Ketch Secor   Banjo,Fiddle,Vocals,Harmonica
Kevin Hayes   Guitar
David Rawlings   Guitar

Technical Credits

Willie Watson   Composer,Group Member
Critter Fuqua   Group Member
Kevin Hayes   Group Member
Arianna Mercer   Photography
Morgan Jahnig   Group Member
Hank Williams   Mastering
Ketch Secor   Composer,Group Member
Traditional   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Doc Watson   Lyricist
David Rawlings   Producer
Kathleen Brennan   Composer
Danny Clinch   Cover Photo,Photography
Old Crow Medicine Show   Group,Arranger,Composer
Matt Andrews   Engineer
Tom Waits   Composer
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