Carry Me Back

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Carry Me Back
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ReleasedJuly 17, 2012
Studio Sound Emporium (Nashville, TN)
Genre
Length37:01
Label ATO Records
Producer Ted Hutt
Old Crow Medicine Show chronology
Tennessee Pusher
(2008)
Carry Me Back
(2012)
Remedy
(2014)
Professional ratings
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Carry Me Back is the fourth studio album by folk/country/old time band Old Crow Medicine Show, released on July 17, 2012. It was the group's first release on ATO Records, and their first album produced by Ted Hutt. The album was the band's last to feature founding-member Willie Watson, and the first to feature multi-instrumentalist Cory Younts.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalLength
1."Carry Me Back to Virginia"Ketch Secor, Kevin Hayes, Willie Watson Secor2:40
2."We Don't Grow Tobacco"Secor, WatsonWatson3:55
3."Levi"SecorSecor2:50
4."Bootlegger's Boy"SecorSecor3:26
5."Ain't it Enough"Secor, Jason White, WatsonSecor3:59
6."Mississippi Saturday Night" Gill Landry, SecorSecor3:01
7."Steppin' Out"Landry, Felix HatfieldLandry2:15
8."Genevieve"LandryLandry2:28
9."Country Gal"Hayes, SecorHayes2:44
10."Half Mile Down"Secor, Jim Lauderdale Secor3:01
11."Sewanee Mountain Catfight"Secor, Watson, Hayes, Cory Younts, Morgan JahnigSecor2:25
12."Ways of Man"SecorSecor4:20

Personnel

Old Crow Medicine Show
Special Guests

Chart performance

Chart (2012)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 20022
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums4
U.S. Billboard Top Folk Albums1
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums5

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