7123 - OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW - Remedy (2014)

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
''REMEDY''
JULY 1 2014
42:57

1 /Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer
Ketch Secor 3:50
2 /8 Dogs 8 Banjos
Ketch Secor 2:52
3 /Sweet Amarillo
Bob Dylan / Critter Fuqua / Ketch Secor 3:23
4 /Mean Enough World
Ketch Secor 3:19
5 /Dearly Departed Friend
Ketch Secor 4:26
6 /Firewater
Critter Fuqua / Chance McCoy / Ketch Secor 3:14
7 /Brave Boys
Kevin Hayes / Morgan Jahnig / Ketch Secor 2:40
8 /Doc's Day
Critter Fuqua / Ketch Secor 3:20
9 /O Cumberland River
Critter Fuqua / Chance McCoy / Ketch Secor 3:21
10 /Tennessee Bound
Ketch Secor 2:50
11/Shit Creek
Critter Fuqua / Kevin Hayes / Morgan Jahnig / Chance McCoy / Ketch Secor 3:25
12 /Sweet Home
Kevin Hayes / Ketch Secor 2:49
13 /The Warden
Felix Hatfield / Gill Landry 3:28

BIOGRAPHY
by James Christopher Monger
Mountain music revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show spin traditional folk and bluegrass yarns with a rock & roll attitude. 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) may specialize in rags, hollers, and pre-World War II blues, but they were weaned on Nirvana and Public Enemy. The quintet's members -- 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, touring with Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart, and appearing on NPR's Prairie Home Companion.

They 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. Their self-titled debut, which was recorded in RCA's legendary Studio B (Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings) as well as 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 of 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.

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1952 - OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW - Carry Me Back (2012)

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
''CARRY ME BACK''
JUL 17 2012
37:01
ATO

1/ Carry Me Back/2:40
2/ We Don't Grow Tobacco/3:54
3/ Levi/2:50
4/ Bootlegger's Boy/3:26
5/ Ain't It Enough/3:59
6/ Mississippi Saturday Night/3:00
7/ Steppin' Out/2:15
8/ Genevieve/2:28
9/ Country Gal/2:43
10/ Half Mile Down/3:01
11/ Sewanee Mountain Catfight/2:25
12/ Ways of Man/4:20

REVIEW
by Steve Leggett
Old Crow Medicine Show sound like a prewar string band filtered through Uncle Tupelo via Nirvana, and if they aren't bluegrass by any stretch of the imagination, they are every bit as energetic as a breakneck bluegrass combo. They also write most of their material, so while the group's songs sound old and traditional, they are more facsimiles than anything else, with an attention to narrative and lyrical detail that the old string band tunes, which were often made up of lightly linked floating verses drawn from old country blues and fiddle reels, seldom had. It isn't easy straddling two different centuries with one's sound and style, but Old Crow Medicine Show pull it off once again on their fourth studio album, the Ted Hutt-produced Carry Me Back, a ragged, breakneck romp that crackles with more energy than a thrash band on Red Bull. The old string bands were dance ensembles, but it's difficult to imagine dancers keeping up very long to tracks like "Carry Me Back to Virginia," "Mississippi Saturday Night," and "Sewanee Mountain Catfight," all of which are unhinged speed shuffles that roar by faster than a NASCAR race. "We Don't Grow Tobacco," which flies on its own fast rails, is a well-written saga that starts off detailing the woes of working in the tobacco fields and ends bemoaning the loss of jobs in those same fields in the 21st century, while "Ain't It Enough" is a beautiful, poetic, and melodic love song, so Old Crow Medicine Show aren't just about rapid-fire speed shuffles. Thought and care are in these songs, and they all fall together in a nice flow. This isn't a one-trick pony band, and so far at least, Old Crow Medicine Show haven't painted themselves into a creative corner, managing somehow to sound both old and refreshingly new at once.

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