Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel,” the break-out single from their 2004 debut album O.C.M.S., has been certified GOLD® by the RIAA®, with sales nearing 600,000 digital tracks. To celebrate, the band will release a “Wagon Wheel” Limited Edition 7” Vinyl on November 22, 2011.

Originally sketched by Bob Dylan and later finished by Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, "Wagon Wheel" remains the band's most revered and top-selling single. The 7" vinyl will be numbered and feature a previously unreleased b-side, "All Night Long" (Live). To pre-order the “Wagon Wheel” Limited Edition 7” Vinyl, visit: http://amzn.to/uv62qG.

Secor reflects on the history of “Wagon Wheel”:

“Wagon Wheel” is a gold record 75 years in the making. Back in 1995, I first heard Bob Dylan sing that striking chorus on his unfinished 1972 studio outtake of “Rock Me Mama”. Being an audacious, banjo-picking teenager, I quickly rattled off three verses and rushed it out to coffeehouses and street corners, singing it to anyone who would listen. In 2003, seeking a copyright to the song, I learned that Dylan had credited it to Memphis songster Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, who recorded the 1950’s boogie-woogie number “Rock Me Mama.” From there, I learned that Crudup attributed the song to Mississippi-turned-Chicagoan Big Bill Broonzy, who recorded it way back in the late 1920’s. So, from Big Bill to Big Boy to Bob and on down to me, “Wagon Wheel” has become a true American folksong, borrowed, half-stolen, and sung out far and wide. The rest, as they say, is history.

After wrapping up the Railroad Revival Tour with Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe, Old Crow Medicine Show headed over to the Fox Theatre in Detroit for a special live performance on A Prairie Home Companion.  Segments of the show are available for streaming HERE. 

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“It's bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.” - Ketch Secor, Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show will be joining Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros on a tour unlike any in recent memory. Traveling exclusively in vintage railcars, the three bands will journey across the American Southwest over the course of a week. The aptly titled Railroad Revival Tour will feature the three bands playing concerts at six unique outdoor locations along the route, beginning April 21st in Oakland, California.

Tickets to The Railroad Revival Tour go on sale Wednesday, March 9 at 9 am PST (10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST). Tickets are available exclusively through http://railroadrevivaltour.com. Each ticket will include an MP3 download of live recordings from the tour as well as a commemorative ticket custom-designed for each site, with no additional service fees.

Winston Marshall from Mumford & Sons is taking a humbled historical perspective on the tour, saying, "To misquote the great Woody Guthrie, this train is bound for disgrace. Glorious disgrace. Woody rode with his fellow drifters around North America; we get to do it with a bunch of other musicians, although not strangers, from different corners of the world. A dream come true to be on tour with them, a privilege we get to do it on a train (one of Britain's greatest inventions by the way)."

The Railroad Revival train is 1,500 feet long and consists of 15 vintage railcars from the 1950s and 60s, pulled by two locomotives. The bands will eat, sleep, and record on the train as they travel across the American Southwest, bringing their collaborative vision to fans from California to New Orleans. The bands will have equal billing and equal time on stage, in an environment that encourages creativity and cross-pollination. The entire tour will be the focus of a documentary that captures the spirit of the journey and gives intimate insights into the creative process.

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(Left: Mumford & Sons, Right: Old Crow Medicine Show)

Millions of viewers watched Mumford & Sons perform with the Avett Brothers and Bob Dylan last night at the 2011 Grammy Awards on CBS.  The Grammy-nominees caught up with CMT.com before the weekend to discuss their big year and appearance at the Grammy's. During the interview, frontman Marcus Mumford mentioned that they modeled themselves after Old Crow Medicine Show. Check out what Mumford had to say about Old Crow below, and for the full interview on CMT.com, click here. 

"'They're truly inspirational in the way that conduct themselves and the way they see music,' Mumford said. 'For them, it's not a job. It's not a career. We feel like that, too, and having the opportunity to tour with them in Europe was sort of a dream come true for us. They never put their instruments down. They were always playing. We would be eating dinner and taking a rest, and they'd have these guitars that were always around, and they were just picking away in the corner and playing the whole time. That's the kind of attitude we aspire to maintain throughout our life as a band.'"

OCMS performs "Alabama High-Test" off their last album Tennessee Pusher (from Live At The Orange Peel And Tennessee Theatre).

Old Crow Medicine Show's live DVD Live At The Orange Peel And Tennessee Theatre is now available for the first time in full digitally at iTunes. The first-ever live DVD from the band who are known for their incessant touring and energy-infused live shows was released physically in the fall of 2009, but only individual videos were available for purchase digitally until now. Get it at iTunes here. 

Directed by Lee Tucker (who also directed the band’s videos for “Wagon Wheel” and “Tell It To Me”), Live at the Orange Peel and Tennessee Theatre was recorded over two nights last December and features performances of 20 songs—15 of which are from the band’s three studio albums (OCMS, Big Iron World, Tennessee Pusher)—including “Tell It To Me,” “Down Home Girl,” “Alabama High-Test,” and “Wagon Wheel.” The DVD also includes five tracks from their live repertoire not found on their three studio albums: “Wheeling Breakdown,” “Raise A Ruckus,” “Reuben’s Train,” “Sally Anne” and “Shack #9.”

"Down Home Girl" from Old Crow Medicine Show: Live At The Orange Peel And Tennessee Theatre

Congratulation to Old Crow Medicine Showwho as of today have sold over 500,000 albums over the course of their career, which started over ten years ago with five musicians traveling city to city in a van and busking in the streets, eventually playing in front of a local pharmacy to an impressed Doc Watson who promptly scheduled the band to play at his MerleFest.

The band joined Nettwerk in 2004 and released O.C.M.S., which features top-selling track (and the one Mumford & Sons love to cover!) "Wagon Wheel."  Since then, the band has released Big Iron World (2006) and Tennessee Pusher (2008), as well as various EPs and their first ever live concert DVD called Live At The Orange Peel And Tennessee Theatre (2009). 

Old Crow Medicine Show will ring in the new year with their famously raucous live set at the Ryman Auditorium on December 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, October 22 at 10:00 AM CT through all Ticketmaster locations, ticketmaster.com, ryman.com and by phone 615-889-3060. For more information, click HERE. 

Don't forget the band appears in tonight's LIVE IN HD cinecast of A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor from St. Paul, MN to over 520 movie theatres across the US and Canada at 8 pm ET, 7 pm CT, 6 pm MT and 8 pm PT (tape delayed). An encore presentation will be shown in select movie theaters on Monday, October 25th. The show will also feature live performances by  Joe Ely, Sara Watkins, and Andra Suchy as well as the regular show performers. For more information, click HERE. 

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A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen with live performances by Old Crow Medicine Show, Joe Ely, Sara Watkins and Andra Suchy, as well as the regular show performers. The show will beam a live high-definition video feed from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN to 524 movie theatres across North America at 7 pm CT, 8 pm ET, 6 pm MT and 7 pm PT on Thursday, October 21st. An encore presentation will be shown in select movie theaters on Monday, October 25th.

To purchase tickets for the live and encore events and to find a complete list of participating theater locations visit prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/live-in-hd/.

Old Crow Medicine Show have announced five European dates opening for UK folk rock band Mumford & Sons.  Members of OCMS appeared on stage with Mumford & Sons at this year's Bonnaroo to help the band close their set with a cover of the OCMS hit single "Wagon Wheel;" check it out above. OCMS have also announced a London date on Friday, September 17 at the Troxy Theatre with Dave Rawlings Machine.

OCMS with Mumford & Sons:

Sept. 24 | Trabendo, Paris, France
Sept. 26 | HMH, Amsterdam, Holland
Sept. 27 | Palladium, Cologne, Germany
Sept. 28 | Columbiahall, Berlin, Germany
Sept. 30 | Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium

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Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have announced a new run of summer tour dates starting July 8 in Cincinnati, OH. The band also recently contributed a cover of “Angel From Montgomery” to the upcoming John Prine tribute album, alongside artists like My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Their version of “Angel From Montgomery” will be on the Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 (Oh Boy Records).

OCMS has kept busy on the road this spring, bringing their live show to New Zealand and Australia before heading back to the States for their debut appearance at Coachella. Said the Wall Street Journal of their performance: “The Old Crow Medicine Show, fortified by Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's band, played bluegrass and folk that prodded the audience into some of the sloppiest and most joyful country dancing the Nashville-based band is likely to have witnessed.” The band also stopped in New Orleans for Jazz Fest in May, and just last Friday made yet another appearance on the Grand Ole Opry at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, sharing the night with John Michael Montgomery, Lee Greenwood, Mel Tillis and more.

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