Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine show is unlike many other newer bands around now. With an old timey bluegrass sound that resembles a band from the great depression era they have released eight studio albums and seven eps since their start in 1998.

Old Crow is best known for "their" song Wagon Wheel which originates from Bob Dylans (who is a major inspiration to the band) chorus of a song which was never recorded onto an album being used by Old Crow along with their own versus. But Bob Dylan credited the phrase "Rock me mama" to a blues musician Arthur Crudup. So the song Wagon Wheel was in the making for 85 years before it was ever put on an album. (The copyright of the song is shared 50/50 between Bob Dylan and Old Crows frontman Ketch Secor.)

Wagon Wheel

 

Ketch Secor, Gill Landry,Chance McCoy, Critter Fuqua, and Cory Younts all play multiple instruments on stage showing there true musical talent while Ben Gould keeps beat with his double bass and Kevin Hayes on the Guitjo. The Guitjo is a banjo crossed with a guitar, it is built like a banjo with the drum head and strings but is tuned like a guitar and has six strings.

(Kevin Hayes on the Guitjo shown above)

On October 26th I was able to see OCMS live at the LC Pavillion in Columbus. The venue was awesome and they put on a great show. Ketch Secor was talking to the crowd the whole time when he wasn't shredding on the fiddle. The banjo player leaned over the audience during a solo and I was less than five feet away. I plan on seeing them again sometime soon.

Their official website:
http://www.crowmedicine.com/