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Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show is an Americana (music), 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 (Old Crow Medicine Show album), Remedy'', released in 2014, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. The group's music has been called Old-time music, old-time, Folk music, folk, and alternative country. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs. Bluegrass musician Doc Watson discovered the band while its members were busking outside a pharmacy in Boone, North Carolina, in 2000. 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. The group released their sixth studio album, ''Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album), Volunteer'', through Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham County, Virginia, Rockingham County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 51,814. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Harrisonburg with Rockingham County for statistical purposes into the Harrisonburg metropolitan area, Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 126,562 in 2011. Harrisonburg is home to James Madison University (JMU), a public research university with an enrollment of over 20,000 students, and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), a private, Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite-affiliated liberal arts college, liberal arts university. Although the city has no historical association with President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remedy (Old Crow Medicine Show Album)
''Remedy'' is the fifth studio album by folk music, folk, country music, country and old-time music band, Old Crow Medicine Show. The album, produced by Ted Hutt, was released on July 1, 2014. It won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. The album is the band's first to feature Chance McCoy and their last with Gill Landry. ''Remedy'' also marks the return of founder member Critter Fuqua to the band's line-up. Track listing Personnel *Ketch Secor - Vocals, harmonica, mandolin, fiddle, piano, banjo, percussion *Critter Fuqua - Banjo, vocals, spoons, accordion, banjo, guitar, percussion *Chance McCoy - Guitar, vocals, hambone, mandolin, dulcimer, percussion, fiddle *Gill Landry - Dobro, vocals, banjo, pedal steel, steel guitar, lead vocal on track 13 *Cory Younts - Drums, vocals, mandolin, percussion, Jew's harp, harmonica *Kevin Hayes - Guitjo, vocals, percussion, lead vocal on track 12 *Morgan Jahnig - Bass, vocals, chimes, percussion *Bucky Baxter - Pedal steel on track 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carry Me Back
''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. Track listing Personnel ;Old Crow Medicine Show *Kevin Hayes - guitjo, vocals *Morgan Jahnig - bass, percussion * Gill Landry - banjo, vocals, dobro, resophonic guitar *Ketch Secor - fiddle, vocals, harmonica, guitar, banjo * Willie Watson - guitar, vocals, banjo, percussion *Cory Younts - mandolin, vocals, percussion, guitar, keyboards ;Special Guests *Critter Fuqua - accordion on "Ways of Man", harmony vocals on "Country Gal" *Jim Lauderdale James Russell Lauderdale (born April 11, 1957) is an American country, bluegrass, and Americana singer-songwriter. Since 1986, he has released 31 studio albums, including collaborat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Pusher
''Tennessee Pusher'' is the third studio album by folk/country/ old time band Old Crow Medicine Show. Released on September 23, 2008, the album was produced by Don Was. The album reached #1 on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums Chart. The album is the band's first with Gill Landry, who replaced founder member Critter Fuqua. Fuqua provides only backing vocals on the album. Track listing Personnel ;Old Crow Medicine Show *Kevin Hayes - guitjo, vocals *Morgan Jahnig - upright bass *Gill Landry - slide guitar, resonator guitar, vocals *Ketch Secor - violin, vocals, guitar, harmonica, banjo *Willie Watson - guitar, vocals, harmonica, violin *Critter Fuqua - backing vocals ;Additional musicians *Jim Keltner - drums *Benmont Tench Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Early years Tench was born in Gainesville, Florida, the second child of Benjamin M ... - Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Iron World
''Big Iron World'' is the second studio album by folk/country/ old timey band Old Crow Medicine Show, released on August 29, 2006. The album was produced by David Rawlings who is best known for being Gillian Welch Gillian Howard Welch (; born October 2, 1967) 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, coun ...'s musical partner. Welch herself plays drums on four tracks on the album. Track listing Chart performance Personnel *Ketch Secor - Vocals, harmonica, fiddle, banjo *Willie Watson - Guitar, vocals, banjo *Critter Fuqua - Banjo, vocals, slide guitar *Kevin Hayes - Guitjo, vocals on "Let It Alone" *Morgan Jahnig - Upright bass *David Rawlings - Guitar (tracks 4 & 10) *Gillian Welch - Drums (tracks 5,6,10 & 11) External linksOld Crow Medicine Show(official site) 2006 albums Old Crow Medicine Show albums {{2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde
''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''. Production ''50 Years of Blonde on Blonde'' was recorded live at the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame, in Nashville, Tennessee, in May 2016. The concert coincided with a Hall of Fame exhibit exploring Dylan's time in Nashville. In an interview, band members Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua described how they had bonded over Dylan's songs as teenagers, and that the ''50 Years...'' project was a natural extension of that collaboration. While the new recording follows the sequence of Dylan's original track-for-track, Old Crow took considerable liberties with the arrangement of individual tracks, for instance reimagining "Pledging My Time" as a "hillbilly breakdown," and "Obviously 5 Believers" as "a manic fiddle riot." The recording was released as an album on April 28, 2017. It was the band's first rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show Album)
''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''. Critical reception The album received a Metacritic score of 85 based on 6 critics, indicating universal acclaim. Commercial performance The album debuted at No. 14 on Top Country Albums, No. 1 on Bluegrass Albums, and No. 7 on Americana/Folk Albums, with 7,000 equivalent album units (6,500 in traditional album sales) in its first week. It is Old Crow Medicine Show's seventh No. 1 on the Bluegrass Albums chart, tying with Ricky Skaggs and Rhonda Vincent Rhonda Lea Vincent (born July 13, 1962) is an American Bluegrass music, blueg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums), Ted Dwane (vocals, double bass, bass guitar), and Ben Lovett (British musician), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, synths, piano). Mumford & Sons have released five studio albums: ''Sigh No More (Mumford & Sons album), Sigh No More'' (2009), ''Babel (Mumford & Sons album), Babel'' (2012), ''Wilder Mind'' (2015), ''Delta (Mumford & Sons album), Delta'' (2018), and ''Rushmere (album), Rushmere'' (2025). Their debut ''Sigh No More'' peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 in the US, with ''Babel'', ''Wilder Mind'' and ''Delta'' all debuting at number one in the US, the former becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band has won music awards throughout their career, with ''Sigh No More'' earnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation. Punk rock lyrics often explore anti-establishment and Anti-authoritarianism, anti-authoritarian themes. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record label, independent labels. The term "punk rock" was previously used by American Music criticism, rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, and other bands from elsewhere created out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. Glam rock in the UK and the New York Dolls from New York ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boone, North Carolina
Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters of the disaster and medical relief organization Samaritan's Purse. The population was 19,092 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer from 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre drama, ''Horn in the West'', portraying the British settlement of the area during the American Revolutionary War and featuring the contributions of its namesake. It is the largest community and the economic hub of the seven-county region of Western North Carolina known as the Western North Carolina#High Country, High Country. History Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busking
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuity, gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to ancient history, antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers, although ''busker'' is generally not used in American English. Performances are anything that people find entertainment, entertaining, including acrobatics, Animal training, animal tricks, balloon modelling, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, Fire performance, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic (illusion), magic, mime artist, mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketch (drawing), sketching and paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His fingerpicking and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm. Biography Early life Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. According to Watson on his three-CD biographical recording ''Legacy'', he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname. A fan in the crowd shouted "Call him Doc!", presumably in reference to the literary character Sherlock Holmes's companion, Doctor W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
