Old Crow Medicine Show | ||||
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Released | February 24, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 2003 | |||
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Label | Nettwerk | |||
Producer | David Rawlings | |||
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Old Crow Medicine Show, or sometimes known as O.C.M.S., is the first studio album released by the acoustic quintet, Old Crow Medicine Show. Songs include obscure traditional tunes and original compositions by group members. The album features their signature tune, "Wagon Wheel", written by frontman Ketch Secor using a Bob Dylan chorus. The album was produced by David Rawlings. Gillian Welch plays drums on two tracks.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocal | Length |
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1. | "Tell It to Me" | Traditional | Ketch Secor | 2:48 |
2. | "Big Time in the Jungle" | Critter Fuqua | Critter Fuqua | 2:50 |
3. | "Poor Man" | Traditional | Willie Watson | 3:35 |
4. | "Tear It Down" | Traditional | Watson | 2:11 |
5. | "Hard to Love" | Traditional | Secor | 2:31 |
6. | "CC Rider" | Ma Rainey | Watson | 3:51 |
7. | "Trials and Troubles" |
| Watson | 2:57 |
8. | "Hard to Tell" | Secor | Secor | 3:15 |
9. | "Take 'Em Away" | Fuqua | Fuqua | 3:35 |
10. | "We're All in This Together" |
| Watson | 4:51 |
11. | "Wagon Wheel" |
| Secor | 3:52 |
Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 68 |
year | format | label | catalog # |
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2004 | CD | Nettwerk | 30349 |
2004 | CD | Nettwerk | 092460 |
2006 | CD | Nettwerk | 303492 |
2004 | CD | EMI | 5982352 |
Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms."
David Todd Rawlings is an American guitarist, singer, and record producer. He is known for his partnership with singer and songwriter Gillian Welch. He and Welch were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 91st Academy Awards for "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. In 2020, Welch and Rawlings released All the Good Times , which won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
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. Their ninth album, Remedy, released in 2014, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. 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.
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"Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years later. Old Crow Medicine Show's final version was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013. The song has been covered numerous times, including charting versions by Nathan Carter in 2012 and Darius Rucker in 2013.
Gilbert John Landry, also known by the stage name of Frank Lemon, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is a former member of Old Crow Medicine Show and a founding member of the Kitchen Syncopators. In March 2015 he released his third album, the self-titled Gill Landry, and in October 2017 came Love Rides a Dark Horse released by ATO Records and Loose Music.
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The Dark is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 2002.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III is the 2002 album from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. This album reached 18 on the US Country chart. Earlier albums in the series include Will the Circle Be Unbroken and Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume II.
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.
The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver is an album consisting of songs originally performed by country and folk singer-songwriter John Denver. It was released on April 2, 2013 by ATO Records. Denver died in October 1997 when the single engine plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of California. The album has been praised by some as a way to help Denver's catalogue reach a new, younger audience.
William Currie Watson is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo player, actor and founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. His debut solo album Folk Singer, Vol. I, was released in May 2014; its follow-up Folksinger, Vol. 2 was released September 15, 2017 on Acony Records. He has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival and other major music festivals. He released a self-titled album of his first collection of self-penned songs on September 13, 2024. He currently resides in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles.
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The Good Life is the debut studio album by Justin Townes Earle, released on March 25, 2008 on Bloodshot Records.
50 Years of Blonde on Blonde is a live album by Old Crow Medicine Show. It is a track-for-track tribute to Bob Dylan's landmark 1966 double album Blonde on Blonde.
Volunteer is the sixth studio album by folk band Old Crow Medicine Show. It was released in April 2018 by Columbia Nashville. The album is the band's only one to feature Joe Andrews, who plays on every track and subsequently became a full band member. It is the last album to feature founding members Kevin Hayes and Critter Fuqua as well as Chance McCoy, all of whom departed the group prior to the release of their next album Paint This Town.
Paint This Town is the seventh studio album by old-time folk band Old Crow Medicine Show. Conceptually, the album aimed to shine a light on the darker aspects of the American experience, with character-driven songs underpinned by the band's vision for a more harmonious future. Released on April 22, 2022, via ATO Records, it marked their return to the label which released 2012's Carry Me Back and 2014's Remedy. It was preceded by the singles "Paint This Town", "Bombs Away", "Honey Chile" and "Gloryland".
Crooked Tree is the third studio album by American bluegrass singer and musician Molly Tuttle. Released on April 1, 2022, it is Tuttle's first album for Nonesuch Records and the first to feature her band Golden Highway, who receive star billing. The album was co-produced by Tuttle and dobro player Jerry Douglas and includes collaborations with Margo Price, Billy Strings, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sierra Hull, Dan Tyminski and Gillian Welch. It was preceded by the single "She'll Change", which was released on November 17, 2021.
Ketch Secor, is a Grammy award-winning American musician and a co-founder and current frontman for the band Old Crow Medicine Show. He is the only member of the band who has remained since its inception. Secor is a multi-instrumentalist, playing fiddle, banjo, harmonica, guitar and other instruments, and is known for infusing old-time Americana and Appalachian music with more modern punk influences.