We wouldn't be here without a lot of the people we met there, like Richie Stearns, the Red Hots and Mac Benford. Ithaca and that surrounding area were a big influence on us.
The group received the 2013 Trailblazer Award from the Americana Music Association, performing at the Americana Honors & Awards Show.
They have made frequent guest appearances on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. They appeared at the Stagecoach Festival 2013 and multiple times at other major festivals, e.g., Bonnaroo Music Festival, MerleFest, : 2000 : 2004 : 2008 : 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, : 2004 : 2009 and Newport Folk Festival. They performed on the Railroad Revival Tour across the U.S. The band was featured along with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Mumford & Sons in the music documentary Big Easy Express, which won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 2013. Their song " Wagon Wheel", a more or less traditional song written by frontman Ketch Secor through a co-authoring arrangement with Bob Dylan, was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013 and has been covered by a number of acts, including Darius Rucker, who made the song a top 40 hit. Previous studio albums were Eutaw (2002) O.C.M.S. They released 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde on Ap(their first album on Columbia Nashville). The group released their sixth studio album, Volunteer, through Columbia Nashville on Apcoinciding with their 20th anniversary as a group. With an old-time string sound fueled by punk rock energy, it has influenced acts like Mumford & Sons and contributed to a revival of banjo-picking string bands playing Americana music - leading to variations on it. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs.īluegrass musician Doc Watson discovered the band while its members were busking outside a pharmacy in Boone, North Carolina, in 2000. The group's music has been called old-time, folk, and alternative country. Their ninth album, Remedy, released in 2014, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. They were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on September 17, 2013. Old Crow Medicine Show is an Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, that has been recording since 1998. As introductions go, this one is hard to beat.Performing on A Prairie Home Companion in 2014Ĭolumbia Nashville, Nettwerk, ATO, MapleMusic (Canada) The earliest cuts can seem a little affected in their old-timey style - "Tell It to Me," the cover of "Down Home Girl," a New Orleans R&B side everybody knows as a Rolling Stones song - but they soon start sounding loose and muscular with "Alabama High Test," and by the end of the compilation, it's clear that they've established their own distinctive roots style. Although the group has grown more accomplished over the years, these records snap. Arriving in 2017, five years after Old Crow Medicine Show made the leap over to ATO Records, Best of Old Crow Medicine Show rounds up highlights from the three albums the group recorded for Nettwerk - 2004's O.C.M.S., 2006's Big Iron World, and 2008's Tennessee Pusher - and adds two unreleased songs, "Black-Haired Quebecoise" and "Heart Up in the Sky." This means Best of Old Crow Medicine Show contains "Wagon Wheel," the group's best-known song thanks to a smash cover by Darius Rucker in 2013, but the rest of the album shows that the group is hardly a one-trick wonder.