Old Crow Medicine Show: Difference between revisions

===Early===

[[File:Little Grill Collective 621 North Main Street Harrisonburg VA June 2008.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Little Grill Collective in Harrisonburg, Virginia.]]

 

[[Willie Watson (musician)|Willie Watson]] first met Ben Gould in high school in [[Watkins Glen, New York]]. After playing music together, both dropped out of school and formed the band The Funnest Game.{{refn|group="n"|A "young folksy kind of jam element acoustic band that was really popular in the southern tier region of New York State. ." as Secor describes it. Watson "was playing shows statewide by the time he was sixteen" with "this group that had some [[conga]]s and some [[clawhammer|clawhammer banjo]] . ."<ref name=Goodman />{{rp|7}}}} Their brand of electric/[[old time music|old-time]] was heavily influenced by the [[old time music|old-time music]] scene prominent in [[Tompkins County|Tompkins]] and [[Schuyler County, New York]], including [[The Horse Flies]] and The Highwoods Stringband.

Fuqua first brought home a [[Bob Dylan]] [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] from a family trip to [[London]] containing a rough outtake called "Rock Me, Mama",{{refn|group="n"|Generally titled "Rock Me Mama", the Dylan outtake, came out of recording sessions for the ''[[Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid]]'' movie soundtrack (1973) in [[Burbank, California]].}} passing it to Secor.<ref name=NPR7082012 group=i>{{cite news|title=Old Crow Medicine Show: Something Borrowed|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/07/08/156390392/old-crow-medicine-show-something-borrowed|access-date=29 September 2012|newspaper=NPR Music|date=July 8, 2012}}</ref> Not "so much a song as a sketch," Secor would later say, "crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out".<ref name=Talbott3>{{cite news|last=Talbott|first=Chris|title=Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_23316412/darius-rucker-rides-wagon-wheel-top-charts|access-date=24 May 2013|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=24 May 2013}}</ref> But the tune kept going through his mind. A few months later, while attending [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] in [[New Hampshire]], and "feeling homesick for the South," he added verses about "hitchhiking his way home full of romantic notions put in his head by the [[Beat poets]] and, most of all, Dylan."{{refn|group="n"|Secor later met Dylan's son, [[Jakob Dylan|Jakob]], who said "it made sense that I was a teenager when I did that because no one in their 30s would have the guts to try to write a Bob Dylan song."}}

 

 

Officially released twice, on an early EP and their second album ("O.C.M.S." in 2004), the song would become the group's signature song — going gold in 2011 and platinum in 2013.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=single|title=Wagon Wheel|artist=Old Crow Medicine Show}}

 

=== ''Volunteer'' (2018) ===

 

{{blockquote|text=Because we were working with Dave, we wanted to pull out some of our more, I guess, rockin' sounds and do less of a roots music or old-time acoustic record. We wanted to have it be a little bigger. We were in a big room, RCA Studio A as opposed to Studio B, and a lot of times the music kind of matches the space.}}

|quote=The sound is invigorating on their recordings, but at a live show the fiddle, banjo, and harmonica are practically on fire, creating a crazy, addictive mix of some of the best traditional music America has to offer with the intensity of a modern-day rock show.<ref name=Pandolfi>{{cite news|last=Pandolfi|first=Elizabeth|title=Old Crow Medicine Show is a bluegrass-powered locomotive: Ketch Them If You Can|url=http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/old-crow-medicine-show-is-a-bluegrass-powered-locomotive/Content?oid=4630672|access-date=16 May 2013|newspaper=Charleston City Paper|date=15 May 2013}}</ref>|source= —Elizabeth Pandolfi, [[Charleston City Paper]]}}

 

 

"We just knew we wanted to combine the technical side of the old sound with the energy of a [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]," states Fuqua.<ref name=Beal group=i>{{cite news|last=Beal Jr.|first=Jim|title=In concert: Old Crow strings music along|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/Old-Crow-strings-music-along-4073801.php#ixzz2Dcv9jk3s|access-date=29 November 2012|newspaper=San Antonio Express-News|date=28 November 2012}}</ref> Starting from old-time music in the Appalachian hills, the group found themselves "making a foray into electric instruments and 'really knocking up the [[rock and roll|rock 'n' roll]] tree' on their 2008 release 'Tennessee Pusher'." On the documentary "Big Easy Express" about the ''Railroad Revival Tour'' with Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros they "practice(d) a complimentary variation of folk" bringing "a pleasingly smoky [[wikt:Special:Search/amalgam|amalgam]] of country, bluegrass, and blues."<ref name=Morris group=r>{{cite news|last=Morris|first=Wesley|title=MOVIE REVIEW: 'Big Easy Express' on track when musicians are on stage|url=http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/2012/10/23/big-easy-express-track-when-the-musicians-are-stage/HubnduH9aipdZp4bGmHKhN/story.html|access-date=24 October 2012|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> With "Carry Me Back" (2012) they've "circled back to the original sound that so excited (Secor) and Fuqua as kids . . full of old-timey string sounds updated for the 21st century—[[sing-along|sing-a-longs]] that lift the soul, [[ballad]]s that rend the heart and a few moments of pure exhilaration."<ref name="Talbott">{{cite news|last=Talbott|first=Chris|date=August 8, 2012|title=Old Crow Medicine Show starts new chapter with 'Carry Me Back'|newspaper=The Tennessean|url=http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/08/08/old-crow-medicine-show-starts-new-chapter-with-carry-me-back/|url-status=dead|access-date=26 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203190408/http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/08/08/old-crow-medicine-show-starts-new-chapter-with-carry-me-back/|archive-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref>

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| Top 10 Bluegrass Albums

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*Old Crow Medicine Show performed on a float for the 2003 [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]].<ref name="LaBate">{{cite journal|last=LaBate|first=Steve|date=1 February 2004|title=Old Crow Medicine Show Does Turkey Day in Style|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2004/02/parades-peeps-pop-stars-1.html|journal=Paste Magazine|series=Scrapbook|issue=8|access-date=31 October 2013}}</ref>

*Their music video of "I Hear Them All" (from ''Big Iron World'') was first-round finalist in both CMT Award categories in which it was nominated.<ref name="Lawless" /> Directed by [[Danny Clinch]], the video was shot in the Mid-City area of [[New Orleans]] featuring local residents with inspirational stories about surviving [[Hurricane Katrina]].

*They opened for the [[Dave Matthews Band]] in 2009 at the [[John Paul Jones Arena]] in Charlottesville, VA; the [[Verizon Wireless Music Center (Birmingham)|Verizon Wireless Music Center]] in [[Pelham, AL]]; and the [[Nikon at Jones Beach Theater]] in [[Wantagh, NY]].

*The music documentary ''[[Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros#Big Easy Express and second studio album (Here)|Big Easy Express]]'', in which the band was featured along with [[Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros]] and [[Mumford and Sons]], won a [[Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video]] in March 2013. Directed by Emmett Malloy, the video was produced by Bryan Ling, Mike Luba, and Tim Lynch under the S2BN Films label.<ref name="Grammy.org" group="w" />

*Their recording of "[[Wagon Wheel (song)|Wagon Wheel]]" was certified [[Music recording sales certification|platinum]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] in April 2013.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=single|title=Wagon Wheel|artist=Old Crow Medicine Show}}

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