Old Crow Medicine Show: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

• The Avett Brothers
• The Felice Brothers
• The Hackensaw Boys
• The Doubtful Guest
• Lost State of Franklin

• Hank Williams
• Flatt & Scruggs
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Merle Haggard
• Woody Guthrie
• Neil Young
• Uncle Dave Macon

Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Mountain music revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show spin traditional folk and bluegrass yarns with a rock and roll attitude. Critter Fuqua (vocals/banjo/resonator guitar), Kevin Hayes (Guitjo), Morgan Jahnig (Upright Bass, Ketch Secor (vocals/fiddle/harmonica/banjo) and Willie Watson (vocals/guitar/banjo may specialize in rags, hollars and pre World War II blues, but they were weaned on Nirvana and Public Enemy. The quintetwho are all from different statesmet in New York, hit the road, played before an impressed Doc Watson in front of a North Carolina pharmacy and were promptly scheduled to play the folk icon's Merlefest. The group relocated to Nashville, found themselves gracing the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, opened for the likes of Dolly Parton and the Del McCoury Band, toured with Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart and appeared on NPR's Prairie Home Companion. They signed to Nettwerk America in 2003, began crafting their own compositions amongst the jug band standards and reels that had become the backbone of the group and went into the studio to make a record with Gillian Welch's otherhalf, guitarist David Rawlings at the helm. The selftitled debut, which was recorded in RCA's legendary Studio B ((Elvis Presley), Waylon Jennings), as well as Woodland Sound Studios (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), arrived the following year.

- James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide