Founded: 1998
Location: United States
Old Crow Medicine Show is an 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, released in 2014, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. The group's music has been called old-time, folk, and alternative country. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs.
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"A well-drilled theatricality to their stage demeanour that adds both joie de vivre and heft to songs like 'Pledging My Time' and 'Visions Of Johanna'."
"They took the night to a heartfelt and moving conclusion with a three-song tribute to Tom Petty."
"We were really good at playing that but we didn't know any of our new songs. It had a funny sort of training wheel effect."
Old Crow Medicine Show on keeping the folk alive.
"Fighting the good fight to retain the integrity of actual, authentic country music"
In recent times, other bands may have followed their lead and tackled this old-time aesthetic with more commercial success, but none have done so with Old Crow’s authenticity and pure love of the form.
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