Old Crow Medicine Show (CD - 2004)

Old Crow Medicine Show: Willie Watson, Critter Fuqua (vocals, guitar, banjo); Ketch Secor (vocals, fiddle, harmonica); Kevin Hayes (guitar, gut-jo); Morgan Jahnig (upright bass).

Additional personnel: David Rawlings (guitar); Gillian Welch (drums).

Recorded at RCA, Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.

Personnel: Critter Fuqua (vocals, guitar, bottleneck guitar, banjo); Willie Watson (vocals, guitar, banjo); Ketcham Secor (vocals, banjo, fiddle, harmonica); David Rawlings, Kevin Hayes (guitar); Morgan Jahnig (upright bass); Gillian Welch (drums).

Recording information: RCA Studio B, Nashville, TN (2003); Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, TN (2003).

Photographers: Arianna Mercer; Danny Clinch.

Arranger: Old Crow Medicine Show.

The fourth album by string-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show and their first for Nettwerk Records, O.C.M.S. is the band's strongest work. Evenly split between traditional folk and blues songs like "C.C. Rider" and "Poor Man" and originals by the band members, these 11 songs are solid, unpretentious folk-rock delivered with enough zest to lift it from the trad ghetto. The album ends with the band's signature song, "Wagon Wheel," which banjo player Ketcham Secor wrote around the chorus of an uncompleted song that appeared on a Bob Dylan bootleg in the mid-1970s. minimize