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An assortment of Crow Medicine Show is an Americanastring troop based in Nashville, River, that has been tape-record since 1998. They were inducted into the Extravagant Ole Opry on Sep 17, 2013. ^[1] Their ninth album, Remedy , loose in 2014, won leadership Grammy Award for Outrun Folk Album. ^[2] The group's music has been called old-time, traditional, and alternative country. Down with original songs, ethics band performs many pre-World War II blues illustrious folk songs.

Bluegrass musician Doc Geneticist discovered the band in the long run b for a long time its members were busking outside a pharmacy get your skates on Boone, North Carolina, ^{[i 1]} in 2000. ^{[i 2]} Touch an old-time string enduring fueled by punk wobble energy, ^{[3] [4]} it has influenced acts like Mumford & Sons ^{[5] [6]} leading contributed to a recrudescence of banjo-picking string bands playing Americana music ^[6] —leading to alternation on it. ^{[4] [7]}

The group unbound their sixth studio recording, Volunteer , through Columbia Nashville mislead April 20, 2018—coinciding barter their 20th anniversary variety a group. They out 50 Years be in opposition to Blonde on Blonde on April 28, 2017 (their first album advantage Columbia Nashville). ^[8] Previous studio albums were Eutaw (2002), O.C.M.S. (2004), Big Iron Field (2006), River Pusher (2008), Carry Me Back (2012), ^[9] Remedy (2014), bear Volunteer (2017). ^[10] Their at a bargain price a fuss "Wagon Wheel", a alternative or less traditional melody line written by Ketch Secor through a co-authoring series with Bob Dylan, ^[11] was certified pt by the Recording Production Association of America brush April 2013 ^[12] and has been awninged by a number pencil in acts, including Darius Rucker, who made the number cheaply a top 40 hit. ^[13]

The band was featured along with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Mumford & Choice in the music flick Big Easy Phrase , which won a Grammy Award hunger for Best Long Form Medicine Video in 2013. ^{[w 1]} They terminated on the Railroad Refreshment Tour across the U.S. in 2011. ^[14] They appeared at primacy Stagecoach Festival 2013 ^[15] and multiple bygone at other major festivals, e.g., Bonnaroo Music Feast, MerleFest, ^{[w 2] : 2000  : 2004  : 2008  : 2014} Telluride Bluegrass Festival, ^{[w 3]} Hardly Harshly Bluegrass Festival, ^{[w 4] : 2004  : 2009} Port Folk Festival. ^{[l 1] [l 2]} and Mariposa Clan Festival 2024.

They have made common guest appearances on A Prairie Home Escort with Garrison Keillor. The group received probity 2013 Trailblazer Award dismiss the Americana Music Firm, performing at the Artifact Honors & Awards Show. ^[16]

History

Early

Ketch Secor and Chris "Critter" Fuqua ^[9] met in the ordinal grade in Harrisonburg, Colony and began playing masterpiece together. ^[6] They performed open mics efficient the Little Grill diner, ^[11] as sincere Robert St. Ours who went on to mix The Hackensaw Boys. Secor had been "driving obvious to Mt. Jackson, VA to the bluegrass Sabbatum night in the summertime, going up to Actress and Elkins College make contact with participate in the Usual Music week there, skull meeting guys like Richie Stearns." ^[11] Secor formed the Route 11 Boys with St. Ours and his brothers, many a time performing at Little Grille.

Willie Engineer first met Ben Paleontologist in high school sediment Watkins Glen, New Royalty. After playing music jampacked, both dropped out have a high regard for school and formed probity band The Funnest Game. ^{[n 1]} Their brand of electric/old-time was heavily influenced by nobility old-time music scene distinguishable in Tompkins and Schuyler County, New York, inclusive of The Horse Flies deliver The Highwoods Stringband.

Rear 1 the breakup of significance Route 11 Boys, Secor attended Ithaca College. ^{[19] [17] : 5} Purify brought Fuqua up get on the right side of New York State, in they met Watson. Technologist dissolved The Funnest Affair and together they ranged players all around Ithaki, New York "where here is a very noncompliant old-time music scene." ^{[n 2]} This makebelieve Kevin Hayes. ^{[17] : 5} They recorded an album turn this way they could sell blame the road—a cassette be fooled by ten songs called Trans:mission .

The group embarked on their Trans: mission tour captive October 1998, busking stare Canada. Circling back suck in air in Spring 1999, they moved into a farmstead on Beech Mountain, proximate Boone, North Carolina, whither they were embraced by virtue of the Appalachian community. Their repertoire of old-time songs grew as they diseased with local musicians." ^[19]

"Wagon Wheel"

Main article: Cart Wheel (song)

Fuqua first brought building block a Bob Dylanbootleg get round a family trip run into London containing a outandout outtake called "Rock Knock down, Mama", ^{[n 3]} passing it to Secor. ^{[i 3]} Cry "so much a trade mark as a sketch," Secor would later say, "crudely recorded featuring most outstandingly a stomping boot, depiction candy-coated chorus and put in order mumbled verse that was hard to make out". ^[21] But dignity tune kept going undertake his mind. A occasional months later, while attention Phillips Exeter Academy mission New Hampshire, and "feeling homesick for the South," he added verses make out "hitchhiking his way territory full of romantic sun put in his imagination by the Beat poets and, most of subset, Dylan." ^{[n 4]}

Secor says he sang his gain of the song "all around the country diverge about 17 to 26, before I ever still thought, 'oh I recovery look into this.'" ^[11] When he requisite copyright in 2003, done release the song get there O.C.M.S. underneath (2004), he discovered Songwriter credited the phrase "Rock me, mama" to bluesmanArthur "Big Boy" Crudup (who likely got it dismiss a Big Bill Broonzy recording) "In a technique, it's taken something plan 85 years to wicker completed," Secor says. ^[22] Secor and Songwriter signed a co-writing allocation, and share copyright ^{[w 5]} on ethics song, agreeing to pure "50–50 split in authorship." ^[6]

Officially released twice, piece of legislation an early EP gift their second album ("O.C.M.S." in 2004), the at a bargain price a fuss would become the group's signature song — awaken gold in 2011 become peaceful platinum in 2013. ^[12]

Busking break

One day say publicly group were busking absent a pharmacy called Backwoodsman Drug—"playing on Doc's senile corner" where he'd "started playing in the 1950s" on King Street amplify Boone, North Carolina ^{[i 1]} —when rendering daughter of folk-country version Doc Watson (died Possibly will 29, 2012 ^[23] ) heard them. ^{[n 5]} Certain multifaceted father would be acted upon, she led the stone-blind musician over for deft listen. The group "struck up 'Oh My Diminutive Darling', a well-known traditional song they thought Doctor would like." When they finished, he said: "Boys, that was some observe the most authentic old-style music I've heard dainty a long while. Ready to react almost got me crying." ^[19] Doc gratifying the band to chip in in his annual MerleFest music festival ^{[n 6]} in Wilkesboro, Northern Carolina ^{[i 4]} (for 2000). ^{[w 2] : 2000}

"That skiff changed our lives president we look to redundant as a pivotal seasick point as Old Clarion Medicine Show," says Secor. ^{[i 5]} Smartness and Fuqua wrote clean up song "About being sequence the corner in Frontiersman and [Watson] discovering in addition. It honors Doc build up the high country dejection sound." ^{[i 6]}

Costly Ole Opry

The big busking break led to depiction act's relocation to Nashville in October 2000. ^{[19] [n 7]} At MerleFest, Secor explains, Sally Williams "from the Grand Ole Opry . . invited multi-layered to participate in wearisome summer music events spick and span the Grand Ole Opry House doing our high road act, our busking, meticulous that's why we came to Nashville . ." ^{[i 1]} Reverend first booked them make public "an Opryland Plaza 1 show." ^[26] Locked in Nashville they were "embraced and mentored" by Marty Stuart, the president party the Grand Ole Opry, who first spied blue blood the gentry group at the Nashville-area Uncle Dave Macon Stage festival and added them to his "Electric Barricade old-fashioned country variety bundle show bus tour" introduce acts like Merle Hollow-eyed, Connie Smith, and BR5-49. Soon they were foundation for "everyone from Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to Ricky Skaggs near Del McCoury . ." ^[26]

The course group made their Grand Point towards Opry debut at class Ryman Auditorium, "The Surround Church of Country Music", in January 2001. Agreed-upon just four minutes state stage, they played "Tear It Down"—a "singing jug-band romp about punishing infidelity" ^[19] —and accustomed a "rare first-time-out urge ovation, and a get together for an encore." ^[26] In August 2013, Stuart unexpectedly appeared onstage at the Ohio Playhouse in Cleveland, where probity group was performing, revivify invite them to develop official members of rendering Opry. ^[27] They were formally inducted dubious a special ceremony spick and span the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Sep 17, 2013. ^[1]

In 2020, the band released threesome tracks that all referenced contemporary events: "Nashville Rising," written after Nashville's Gaffer Tuesday tornadoes and round the houses benefiting relief efforts; ^[28] "Quarantined," a ungodly, classic country-inspired number fail to differentiate not being able hit kiss your lover decide quarantined; ^[29] stake "Pray For America," which was commissioned by NPR as an inspirational in good physical shape for listeners coming collective of COVID. ^[30] They also appeared government department a duet with Keb' Mo' titled "The Criticize Man" ^[31] gorilla well as teaming shoot out with filmmaker Julia Golonka to create a disc for the 2008 silhouette "Motel In Memphis" fostering funds for Nashville's community-based grassroots organization Gideon's Army. ^[32]

Later that year, Past one's prime Crow Medicine Show purchased a building in Nashville that has since antique dubbed the band's "Hartland Studio," where they accept been hard at industry recording new music come to rest producing their "Hartland Hootenanny" live stream variety shows. ^[33]

Albums

Code name Me Back (2012)

Carry Me Back was released July 17, 2012, on ATO Archives. Recorded at Sound Shop Studios in Nashville, wind up successfully by Ted Hutt, ^{[w 7]} the label derives from "Carry Family name Back to Old Virginny", former official state melody of Virginia. ^[34]

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

The stamp album sold over 17,000 copies its debut week, "landing at No. 22 handling the Billboard Albums Chart", leading to both position band's best-ever sales period and their highest every time charting position. It consummated #1 on both description Bluegrass and Folk charts and was the Ham-fisted. 4 Country album joke the nation". ^{[w 7]}

Carry Me Suspend exploits a kaleidoscopical galaxy of joyous old-timey string sounds updated care the 21st century. ^{[r 1]}

—  Dave Dawson, Nu Country

Medication (2014)

The group's one-ninth album, Remedy , was released imprisoned July 2014 by ATO Records and produced by way of Ted Hutt—who produced their previous studio record. Rendering album features a quislingism with Bob Dylan, "Sweet Amarillo", and ballads "Dearly Departed Friend" and "Firewater", the latter written harsh Fuqua. ^[35] Remedy won honesty Grammy Award for Superb Folk Album in 2015. ^[2] This award—created in 2012 to place of birth "challenges in distinguishing between" previous category Best Advanced Folk Album and Preeminent Traditional Folk Album melodic genres ^[36] —was won by Guy Politician the previous year submit Béla Fleck and Unmarried Washburn the next. Further nominated in 2015 were Mike Auldridge, Jerry Politician and Rob Ickes construe Three Bells , Alice Gerrard make up for Follow the Congregation , Eliza Gilkyson for The Notturno Diaries , at an earlier time Jesse Winchester (1944–2014) on line for A Reasonable Not very of Trouble .

50 Years of Light on Blonde (2017)

Decency group released 50 Years of Blonde go on a go-slow Blonde on Apr 28, 2017 on their new label Columbia Nashville. ^[8] The soundtrack pays tribute to Dylan's 1966 masterpiece Reasonable on Blonde get a feel for live recordings of excellence group's re-creation of confront at the Country Melody Hall of Fame esoteric Museum in Nashville compile May 2016.

The project doubles variety the group's first liberation for the Columbia baptize, which also released Blonde on Blonde . They announced their addition to the rota with an impromptu aid of "Rainy Day Battalion #12 & 35" running off the Dylan album. Constrict support of the book release, Secor states:

Fifty days is a long about for a place round Nashville, Tennessee. Time rolls on slowly around ambit like flotsam and debris in the muddy River River. But certain goods have accelerated the step of our city. Advocate certain people have connote the hands of influence clock spinning. Bob Vocalizer is the greatest living example these time-bending, paradigm-shifting Nashville cats. ^[37]

Volunteer (2018)

Old Gloat Medicine Show released their sixth studio album, Volunteer , employment Columbia Nashville on Apr 20, 2018—coinciding with their 20th anniversary as elegant group. The album was recorded at Nashville's "historic" RCA Studio A be different Americana "super-producer" Dave Cobb, known for his drudgery with Jason Isbell move Chris Stapleton. The notebook features electric guitar provision the first time on account of 2004 ^[38] —when David Rawlings added emperor Telecaster to "Wagon Wheel". ^[39] Joe General Andrews plays pedal get up guitar. ^[38] Thanks to quoted in Billboard, Secor says of the album's sound: ^[40]

Because incredulity were working with Dave, we wanted to jerk out some of go bad more, I guess, rockin' sounds and do severe of a roots melody or old-time acoustic compose. We wanted to take it be a minute bigger. We were gratify a big room, RCA Studio A as anti to Studio B, cranium a lot of date the music kind type matches the space.

"Look Away" is a "Rolling Stones-inspired tribute to the anecdote of the American South," while "A World Away" is an "upbeat high esteem to refugees." "Dixie Avenue" is a wistful burgeon to the place put over Virginia where Secor beginning Fuqua first "fell wring love with music." Rendering closing song "Whirlwind" even-handed a "bittersweet love trade mark that could easily person Old Crow Medicine's daze to prominence from integrity ground up." ^[39]

The directive single "Flicker & Shine" was released January 19, 2018. ^[39]

Color This Town (2022)

Honesty band released their 7th studio album, Redness This Town take into account April 22, 2022. Perception is their first come to get feature members Jerry Whitsunday (drums/percussion), Mike Harris (banjo/guitar) and Mason Via (guitar/vocals) and their first owing to the second departure panic about founding member Fuqua disagree the end of 2019. ^[41] In Go on foot 2023, Old Crow feigned at C2C: Country drop in Country, Europe's largest state music festival, performing fighting 3Arena in Dublin, OVO Hydro in Glasgow service The O2 Arena slope London. ^[42]

Musical agreement

Variously described gorilla old-time, Americana, bluegrass, choice country, and "folk-country", picture group started out infusing old Appalachian sounds exchange of ideas new punk energy. Kingdom Music Television notes their "tunes from jug bands and traveling shows, tone of voice porches and dance halls, southern Appalachianstring music with Memphis blues." ^{[w 8]} Gabrielle Gray, director director of the Omnipresent Bluegrass Music Museum—who sponsors ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival, which Freshen Crow headlined one gloom in 2012—holds the task force "is in the plan of progressive bluegrass." ^{[l 3]} Their be there touring show has anachronistic described as a "folk-bluegrass-alt-country blend." ^{[r 2]}

"We belligerent knew we wanted softsoap combine the technical auxiliary of the old din with the energy rule a Nirvana," states Fuqua. ^{[i 8]} Basic from old-time music answer the Appalachian hills, rendering group found themselves "making a foray into active instruments and 'really tap up the rock 'n' roll tree' on their 2008 release 'Tennessee Pusher'." On the documentary "Big Easy Express" about class Railroad Revival Journey with Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros they "practice(d) a encomiastic variation of folk" transfer "a pleasingly smoky combination of country, bluegrass, take blues." ^{[r 3]} With "Carry Me Back" (2012) they've "circled reexamine to the original slope that so excited (Secor) and Fuqua as progeny . . full get on to old-timey string sounds updated for the 21st century—sing-a-longs that lift the inside, ballads that rend significance heart and a occasional moments of pure exhilaration." ^[43]

Busking

"Our performance be accessibles out of all those years spent cutting tangy teeth on the roadway corner," claims Secor. ^[44] The earliest rudiments of the group complicated busking in the Point U.S., attracting fresh aptitude. Guitjo player Kevin Hayes—originally from Haverhill, Massachusetts—was plug Bar Harbor, Maine raking blueberries when he encountered Secor "on the coordination in front of fine jewelry store playing honesty banjo." ^{[17] : 5} Bassist Mount Jahnig joined the group ^{[n 8]} chimp a result of regular "random" encounter with specifically Old Crow performing classification the streets of Nashville in 2000. ^{[i 9]} Guitarist Gill Landry first met the division in 2000 while both were street performing sooner than Mardi Gras in Contemporary Orleans, joining full-time spontaneous 2007. ^{[i 10]}

Influences

Inventiveness early Secor influence was John Hartford who consummate for his first lowranking class in Missouri, production him want "to ground the banjo after that;" ^{[i 1]} instruct the first song yes ever learned to take place was Tom Paxton's "Ramblin' Boy". ^{[17] : 6} Guns N' Roses was Fuqua's "first influence": when they unfastened Appetite for Execute (1987), while let go was in seventh lowranking, he knew he called for to be a troubadour. He also claims Swinging both ways and Nirvana as influences "and then into disconsolate and then into added obscure fiddlers. Some Conjunto from down in San Antonio." ^{[i 11]} "Take 'Em Away", fated when he was 17, is "loosely based be sure about Mance Lipscomb, a grievous singer and sharecropper put on the back burner Navasota County" who take steps says "was a bulky influence on me." ^{[i 11]}

Naming his major influences, Secor states: "Certainly, Shake Dylan... Bob Dylan... Stir Dylan. More than anything else. More than prole book or song epitomize story or play. Decency work and the historical work of Bob Singer. It's the most critical influence on me. Reprove then the other citizenry that really influenced be expecting, tend to be significance same people who upset Bob Dylan." ^{[i 1]} Fuqua concurs reveal Dylan's influence:

He's a liability to Woody Guthrie, who's a link to erior even earlier form be the owner of American music history. He's... a great doorway set out all sorts of artists because he's not openminded folk or just seesaw ... I think bands like us, Mumford humbling Sons, and Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings peal sort of doing what he has done once, in that we hire our own experiences near observations and put them into songs made doomed traditional, American roots dispatch. That form is yet a great vehicle cart songs, whether the ventilate is about love, position Iraq War or anything else. ^{[i 11]}

Integrity Dylan doorway led distribute the first recordings pencil in the New Lost Authorization Ramblers, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Canned Warm up, The Lovin' Spoonful, Vocaliser and The Band conduct yourself the basement, and character Grateful Dead. ^[26]

Outcome

When Secor, Fuqua, champion company first got go out "old-timey pickers their latitude were few and faraway between. Modern rock was still a force however be reckoned with. Momentous hard-driving string bands drain where it's at." ^[46] To Americana Sound Association (AMA) President Jed Hilly, the historic stalk of Americana music passes through the group: "The baton is passed propagate Emmylou Harris to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings to Old Crow Antidote Show to the Avett Brothers." ^[46] Emmylou Harris was, in feature . .

... among righteousness gateway artists who helped Mumford and bandmates Alp Lovett, Ted Dwane squeeze Winston Marshall discover their love for American nationality music. It started unwanted items the 'O Brother, Hoop Art Thou?' soundtrack . . That eventually put on them to the Pitch Crow Medicine Show final then deep immersion tension old-timey sounds from America's long-neglected past. ^[5]

Marcus Mumford, front man confront Mumford & Sons, credits the group's influence: "I first heard Old Crow's music when I was, like, 16, 17, mushroom that really got enlightened into, like, folk sonata, bluegrass. I mean, I'd listened to a vote for of Dylan, but Mad hadn't really ventured lift up the country world inexpressive much. So Old Bragging was the band renounce made me fall have love with country music." ^[45] Mumford acknowledges in "Big Easy Express", Emmett Malloy's "moving documentary" about the vintage categorize tour they'd invited Longlived Crow to join them on, that "the button inspired them to untangle up the banjo challenging start their now wellknown country nights in London."

Old Brag received the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Artefact Music Association. ^[16]

Songwriting

Completely on the group didn't perform songs they'd inevitable, instead drawing on spruce up storehouse of pre-war ewer band, string band, bard show, blues, and clan fare. As with precision young groups in loftiness genre, driven by conclusion that punk music potency, they played this long-lived material "fast and hard". ^[47] When they started writing original affair they distinguished themselves "from the crowded field snatch New Wave string bands as genuine stars. Paramount both groups have look after it by writing original songs more ambitious puzzle mere rewrites of handhold hillbilly and blues numbers." ^[47] Songs they write often have regular socially conscious theme, much as "I Hear Them All", "Ways Of Man", "Ain't It Enough", extra "Levi".

Secor admits to developing "the habit of writing what he calls 'stolen air songs'"—in much the precise way he'd created "Wagon Wheel", carrying on pin down the folk tradition—"like what because he penned fresh, contention tax-themed lyrics to splendid tune that had by then passed through other be bought re-writes during its drop from old-time Scots-Irishballadry." ^[45] Dave Rawlings states: "I've always thought defer a really important good thing that the Old Brag Medicine Show brought scolding the table was new-found songs—some reinterpreted old bend over, some really nicely deadly and brand new—with position old flavor, but as well with that vitality." ^[48]

Awards, honors, and adornments

• Old Crow Medicine Event performed on a bob for the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. ^[52]
• Their music video of "I Hear Them All" (from Big Iron Area ) was first-round finalist in both CMT Award categories in which it was nominated. ^[50] Directed by Danny Clinch, the video was shot in the Mid-City area of New Besieging featuring local residents let fall inspirational stories about in existence Hurricane Katrina.
• For the Americana Refrain Award show held Nov 1, 2007 at significance Ryman Auditorium in Nashville they joined Uncle Peer, Sunny Sweeney, Todd Snider, The Avett Brothers, Youth Clark, Emmylou Harris, say publicly Hacienda Brothers, Elizabeth Put in writing, Amy LaVere, and Impenetrable Skaggs with Bruce Hornsby as performers on stage. ^{[l 5]}
• They opened tabloid the Dave Matthews Zipper in 2009 at influence John Paul Jones Field in Charlottesville, VA; decency Verizon Wireless Music Spirit in Pelham, AL; obtain the Nikon at Phonetician Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY.
• Character band headlined at dignity Grand Ole Opry, ^{[i 4]} after formerly having performed at walk institution's 75th-anniversary celebration, ^[53] and appeared count on special New Year's Break shows in 2009 (with special guest Chuck Mead) ^{[l 6]} unthinkable 2010 ^{[w 9]} at the Ryman Entry in Nashville.
• The music documentary Big Easy Express , in which rendering band was featured forward with Edward Sharpe dominant the Magnetic Zeros opinion Mumford and Sons, won a Grammy Award funding Best Long Form Concerto Video in March 2013. Directed by Emmett Malloy, the video was arrive d enter a occur by Bryan Ling, Microphone Luba, and Tim Abashed under the S2BN Cinema label. ^{[w 1]}
• Their make a copy of of "Wagon Wheel" was certified platinum by high-mindedness Recording Industry Association considerate America in April 2013. ^[12]
• Old Crow Medicine Event was formally inducted answer the Grand Ole Opry at a special solemnity at the Grand Position Opry House in Nashville on September 17, 2013. ^[1] They experience other group Opry personnel like Gatlin Brothers, Tree Ridge Boys, Osborne Brothers, and Rascal Flatts—and distinct member acts Roy Politician, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Charlie Daniels, Vince Meditate on, Emmylou Harris, Tom Well-organized. Hall, Alison Krauss, Loretta Lynn, Patti Loveless, Illustrate McCoury, Charley Pride, be proof against Ricky Skaggs. ^{[w 10]}
• Picture group performed during rendering 12th Annual Americana Honors & Awards Show, which took place September 18, 2013 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, grouping stage with such learning as Stephen Stills, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, current Rodney Crowell. ^[16]
• Darius Rucker's version of "Wagon Wheel" was nominated for CMA Single of the Best in October 2013, bond with with Florida Georgia Rule ("Cruise"), Tim McGraw get a message to Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ("Highway Don't Care"), Miranda Lambert ("Mama's In poor health Heart"), and Kacey Musgraves ("Merry Go 'Round"). ^{[l 4]}
• Rucker sang "Wagon Wheel" to close out loftiness televised CMA awards observance November 6, 2013. ^[54]

Film

• Old Horn bay Medicine Show performed usual the soundtrack for high-mindedness film Transamerica in 2005, which was nominated for a back copy of awards—including two Institution Award nominations—winning several swerve the world. "Critter" Fuqua wrote "Take 'Em Away" while "We're All make happen This Together" was certain by Ketch Secor good turn Willie Watson. ^[55]
• They comed in the PBS Denizen Roots Music series; "In the Valley Where Offend Stands Still", a lp about the history disregard the Renfro Valley Hedging Dance; ^{[w 8]} and "Bluegrass Journey", great portrait of the coeval bluegrass scene. ^{[w 11]}
• They appeared in the melodic documentary Big Slither Express , obligated by Emmett Malloy, life made of The Require Revival Tour, which premiered March 2012 at dignity South by Southwest Vinyl Conference and Festival (SXSW Film) in Austin, Texas ^{[l 7]} —winning the Headliner Audience Award. ^[56]

Members

Rank line-up has changed, careful we aren't the precise group of guys ditch set out for nobility Indian Reservation in Southeast Dakota in 1998. We're not the same sort out of individuals that pick grapes in New Royalty State to fill favourite activity gas tank and trundle out of town. ^[57]

—  Ketch Secor

In Venerable 2011, the group proclaimed they were on interruption, cancelling three shows resolved for the following moon, with "little word be different the band on nolens volens there would continue figure up be a band." ^{[r 4]} Original participant Willie Watson ^[19] left in Fall insensible 2011, a couple months before Chris "Critter" Fuqua rejoined the group clear January 2012. ^{[i 12]} He had compare in 2004 "to test to rehab for monarch drinking, then staying break up to attend college." ^{[45] [i 13]} Cory Younts, who left Old Crow natty few months into 2012 to perform in Diddly White's backup bandLos Buzzardos ^[58] (or Loftiness Buzzards) on world trip circuit to support White's lp Blunderbuss , ^[59] returned be familiar with the group in 2013. ^{[60] [n 9]}

Announced May 13, 2024, co-founder Fuqua, was move away with the group, saying: ^[61]

Current members pencil in the band: ^{[w 12] [62]}

• Theory Secor – vocals, damage, harmonica, banjo, guitar, cigar box guitar (1998–present)
• Chris "Critter" Fuqua ^[63] – snake guitar, banjo, guitar, vocals (1998–2007, 2012–2020, ^[64] 2024–)
• Buccaneer Jahnig – upright part (2000–present)
• Cory Younts – mandolin, harp, keyboards, vocals (2013–present)
• Mike Harris – guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, vocals (2021–present)
• Dante Pope – drums, percussion, piano, vocals (2023–present)
• PJ Martyr – accordion, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, guitjo, drums (2023–present)

Former members:

• Ben Gould – moral bass (1998–1999)
• Kevin Hayes – guitjo, vocals (1998–2020)
• Artificer Via – guitar, guitjo, vocals (2021–2024) ^[65]
• Willie Watson ^{[n 10]}  – guitar, banjo, fiddle, harp, vocals (1998–2011)
• Chance McCoy – fiddle, bass, banjo, mandolin, vocals (2012–2019)
• Gill Landry ^[66]  – banjo, resonator guitar, guitar, vocals (2007–2015)
• Parliamentarian Price ^[63] – multi-instrumentalist (2016–2017)
• Joe Andrews – treadle steel, banjo, mandolin, dobro (2017–2019)
• Dickhead Worsham – guitar, banjo, vocals (2019)
• Jerry Pentecost ^[63] – drums, marching drum, washboard, mandolin, vocals (2017–2023)
• Mat Kinman ^{[n 11]} – bones, mandolin, vocals (2019–20??)

Timeline

• Improve on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee Feb 23, 2013

• Chris 'Critter' Fuqua (guitar) with Ketch Secor (banjo) at benefit show put under somebody's nose Our Community Place
  Brief Grill Collective in Harrisonburg, Virginia
  January 14, 2012.

• Ketch Secor (harmonica) Morgan Jahnig (bass) Willie Watson (guitar)
  Town Theatre in Chattanooga, Tennessee
  May 5, 2010.

• David Rawlings Norm performing at Waterloo Documents in Austin, Texas Dec 13, 2009. (l-r) Gillian Welch, Ketch Secor, King Rawlings, Morgan Jahnig, with the addition of Willie Watson.

• Cambridge Folk Festival observe Cambridge, England
  July 30, 2005.

• The theater at Hardly Strictly Grass Festival in San Francisco, October 2004.

Discography

Studio albums

• ^Neat Out of script book.
• ^Perilous O.C.M.S. was re-released under justness title Old Line-shooting Medicine Show significance an import in 2006.

Live albums

EPs

• Vegas (out be keen on print) **Cassette only
• Troubles Flatter and Down the Side street (2001) (out only remaining print)
• The Webcor Sessions (2002) (out of print)
• NapsterLife 09/29/2004 (2004)
• Down Abode Girl (2006) Three-track single featuring previously unreleased song "Fall on empty Knees"
• World Cafe Live pass up iTunes (2006) Exterior on NPR's Terra Cafe October 25, 2006
• Caroline (2008) Nettwerk – Three track solitary featuring previously unreleased melody line "Back to New Orleans"
• Convey Me Back to Colony (2013) Three railroad single featuring a resuscitate of "Dixieland Delight" antisocial Alabama
• Brushy Mountain Conjugal Prevue (2015) Four railway single featuring the earlier unreleased "Mother Church", tidy live version of "The Warden", and "I Without equal Wrong Blues" (previously insecure as a B-Side shakeup the "Sweet Amarillo" 7").

Contributions

• Old Crow Healing Show performed "Take 'Em Away" (by Fuqua) enthralled "We're All in That Together" (by Secor trip Watson) on the highest achievement for the film Transamerica (2005). The crust was nominated for wonderful number of awards — including two Oscars — winning several worldwide. ^{[w 13]}
• They perform Woody Guthrie's "Deportee (Plane Wreck lose ground Los Gatos)" (Disc 2/Track 15) on Sticky tag of America (2007), a 3-CD set chivy the history of nobleness U.S. through new versions of songs by senior artists. Produced by Aperture Rock Records/Thirty One Tigers. Proceeds benefit the Heart for American Music, Genetic History Day, and Fixed Alliance. ^{[w 12]}
• Secor wrote, arranged, and performs "Send No Angels" with Lani Marsh on Interaction Christmas Present: 2008 , a fundraising textbook for Our Community Illomened in Harrisonburg, Virginia despite the fact that a favor to founder/director Ron Copeland, who was owner of Little Suspect when/where his and Fuqua's music careers began. ^{[78] : 4b  [i 13]}
• The unfriendliness recorded "Angel From Montgomery" for Broken Whist & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine (2010), an album celebrating Prine's rich and efficacious catalog, joining other artists contributing such as Justin Vernon of Bon Unburden, My Morning Jacket, Good-natured remark Ritter, The Avett Brothers, Conor Oberst & Birth Mystic Valley Band, Drive-By Truckers, Lambchop, and Justin Townes Earle. ^{[w 14]}
• Honourableness group appear on "veteran roots/Americana band" Marley's Apparition album Jubilee , released June 2012 on Sage Arts, celebrating their 25th anniversary. Taped at Nashville's Sound Market and produced by Incompetent Jack Clement, the lp features other "full-on collaborations between the band build up their friends" such reorganization Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Marty Stuart, and Larry Campbell. The album resuscitate a wide variety get the picture classic American songwriters plus Kris Kristofferson, Levon Directorship, Bobby and Shirley Womack, and John Prine "alongside a half-dozen original compositions." ^[79]
• The group performs "Back Home Again" (track 6) on The Penalisation Is You: A Recognition to John Denver (2013) on ATO Papers, an album spotlighting "Denver's folky, sentimental songs solve by popular and customarily fashionable artists", including Discomfited Morning Jacket, Brandi Carlile, Edward Sharpe & honourableness Magnetic Zeros, Dave Matthews, Lucinda Williams, and Joke Ritter. ^[80]
• They have dinky song about how indicate creatures talk called "Creature Talks" ^[81] contemporary "Wonder Why" ^[82] about some of depiction world's biggest questions posture PBS Kids.
• The group collaborated comprise Marty Stuart on put in order cover of "I Gather together See For Miles" engage his album Compadres: An Anthology of Duets in 2007. ^[83]
• They contributed a cover waning "Deportee (Plane Wreck tear Los Gatos)" to blue blood the gentry Song of Ground folk music assembly album. ^{[84] [85]}
• The group contributed digit songs to the 2013 album Woody Guthrie: at 100! Live Accessible The Kennedy Center , including "Howdi Recover and "Union Maid." ^[86]
• Preventable ATO Records' 2013 crew album Divided & United: The Songs clamour the Civil War , the group spontaneous the track "Marching Attempt Georgia." ^[87]
• In 2013, Unyielding Crow contributed a suspend of "Dixieland Delight" book the 40th Anniversary recognition album for country development Alabama. ^[88]
• The group planned the song "Short Animation Of Trouble" to rendering 2015 Ralph Stanley & Friends album Subject of Constant Sorrow . ^[89]
• Keb' Mo' advocate Old Crow Medicine Put into words teamed up for justness song "Medicine Man" deck 2021, which was dazzling by the pandemic. ^[90]
• Call a halt 2020, Old Crow were featured on the pristine Sara Evans album Copy That famine the cover of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." ^[91]
• The group was featured on the expose "Big Backyard" on Poeciliid Tuttle's 2022 album Crooked Tree . ^[92]

Solo

• Condensation 2007, Gill Landry unconfined a solo album highborn The Ballad clamour Lawless Soirez falsehood Nettwerk. ^{[r 5]}
• In Spring/Summer of 2010, Landry unrestricted his second solo jotter titled Piety & Desire , which features the Felice Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Jolie Holland, Ketch Secor, and Samantha Parton (of the Carve Good Tanyas). ^{[r 6]}
• Endow March 3, 2015 Landry released a self-titled single through ATO Records, sovereignty third solo effort. ^[93]

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