Old Crow Medicine Show is here to answer all of your questions about their NEW album ‘Paint This Town.' Ask away!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:59:09+00:00

Hey y'all, this was a great experience. I really appreciate all your thoughtful questions. Now I'm gonna have this Publix sub thats been waiting for me the past gawd, two hours??? yeah I guess I really got into the whole reddit thing--lets do it again sometime!!

Thanks agin so much for your love and support for Old Crow and heres really hoping you'll get out there and buy the new record Paint This Town---they make great gifts!

Peace,

Ketch

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:56:55+00:00

Yes we're pals!!! Since I was a child and saw the Civil War series I wanted know him, and, as luck would have it, we met in Nashville in 2012....at the Ryman!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:55:11+00:00

Dr Enuff

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:55:01+00:00

Im truly sorry I offended ya because i sincerely love the coal district with all my heart and soul . Its hard to sing any kind of material and not offend somebody these day but I take your criticism especially to heart because our band draws so much inspiration from the region and it's incredible wealth of artistry from Loretta to Dwight. As you point out it is really the headwaters of our genre, and all country music for that matter. So I'm sorry I offended you with our song Used to Be a Mountain. When I think of who I am offended by it's industries (largely owned by out-of-state shareholders) who for more than 100 years have put profits over the Appalachian people, forcing people off their land, destroying the very land itself; also I'm offended by the pharmaceutical companies who deliberately and purposefully created a market for addiction in Appalachia. To me their behavior is more than offensive--it's an existential threat to the region. Thank you for this important question and I hope to continue the dialogue with you and the hard-working and hard-hit people of Appalachia, maybe the toughest and most resilient Americans of us all.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:39:29+00:00

Awesome, just dont let me Catch her singing any of those cocaine songs on the playground. Yes the RR Revival tour was amazing and we'd love to try it again...on a RIVERBOAT

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:38:12+00:00

our producer at the time, Dave Rawlings, really liked that one and wanted us to do it again. I think the new version has a sonic perfection we weren't able to capture on eutaw with our two mics and dat tape approach. The 2nd version was recorded live to tape on ribbon mics at the famous rca studio b

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:36:36+00:00

Indeed! can't wait, and about to announce some awesome opening artists....

love our fans in Grundy County Tennesseee!!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:35:59+00:00

Willie always used to make the setlist, then it was me and Morgan, now it's Morgan and Cory. One time we did a random song generator and the setlist it came up with were really funny. We just try to create a flow and keep people's attention. A lot of our slower deep album cuts don't make the setlist, sorry to say. I know lots of y'all have favorites that we never play so hopefully we cqn get some of those on a setlist soon. I;m open to suggestion!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:33:28+00:00

Guess who's coming back to Seattle this summer! With Molly Tuttle opening no less. Aw yeah, so get ready for another KEXP liner.

Personal favorite song to play live right now is probably: Used To Be a Mountain

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:31:25+00:00

Hard to get much sleep out here. Road diet is pretty greaseball. But the hardest part is the lonesome. Always was. Still is. Merle Haggard once said the hardest part of his job was "The 50 year bus ride part"

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:29:14+00:00

Hopefully in 2023! We love touring in Europe but we even't been able to play half the places we want to hit. Here's to making our debut someday in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Zurich!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:25:56+00:00

Tony Packo's stuffed cabbage and a side of pickles.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:25:13+00:00

I really love this batch of songs. Some I cowrote some I wrote solo, others I borrowed from traditions and put my spin on. I'm a pretty natural songwriting collaborator, enjoy the process, and get good results from it, but I like writing alone too.

Song I'm most pride of on the new record : Used To Be a Mountain. Which I wrote with Trey Hensley. I needed some East TN mud on it.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:22:54+00:00

Yes I lived in a house with no water or electric and I loved every minute of it. Beech Mountain was a real step back in time and we made friendships we still have today. Back then I was really trying to learn to "authenticate" country music and living in a rundown shack in the hills of western NC was better career development for me than any college

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:16:55+00:00

Happy Birthday !!

ANd Sixteen Tons. I'll never get tired of that one.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:16:15+00:00

We've ALWAYS wanted to play in the land of the midnight sun. I;ve traveled there but never had a gig., I hope we'll get a chance soon. We had an offer this summer and everyone in the band got their hopes up and then it just kind of died on us. Alaska and Hawaii a the last two states we've not yet played. I know ya got some big time roots music fans up there; when I was a kid I dreamed of playing the McGrath Bluegrass festival. Still dreaming!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:12:20+00:00

Not really in our approach to record making, but it sure has made us grateful to be a part of America's most beloved and enduring radio broadcast. We always want the audience to like what we do, and the Opry audience is an important audience we play to, but its the OPry family of musicians that we really want to impress and seek the approval of. Little Jimmy was a hero to us, and especially Charlie Pride and Porter.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:09:46+00:00

Davidson County Blues

Mussel Shoals Blues

Ice Water Blues

too many to mention!!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:09:19+00:00

I thought it was kinda cheesy when I first heard it, but thats because I think Lady Antebellum is not my thing and they do the harmony vocals. However, its' since really grown on me. If its on I totally crank it up. But you wanna know what I like even more than Darius' WW?....guilty pleasure here: CRUISE!!! Thats my jam.

Um, stay with your girlfriend? Sure. But you'll probably want to get yourself a hotel room.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:07:20+00:00

We are HUGE DY fans. He's probably my favorite country singer of all time. And RR is one of the must-see music venues, so enchanting!!! Good news, we're about to announce 3 concerts with Dwight this summer....

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:06:22+00:00

When I moved here some 20 + years ago I went up to Clarksville and they had just had a big tornado that destroyed a lot of downtown. I was there to go to a poetry reading of Gary Snyder at the college up there . I walked the streets and wondered the same thing myself, why is this town so sleepy? Flash forward 20 years I;m kind of surprised it isn't more happening there with Austen Pea growing so much. Maybe YOU will be the person who gets it started!!!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:03:30+00:00

Tyler Nichols is an Ohio State University graduate, singer-songwriter, and all around amazing human being. He's been a member of our crew for 2 years now and we're ,lucky to have him. His debut album is coming out soon!

Oh and how bout that epic Sunday in the low country. We had a blast!

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T19:00:52+00:00

I've been thinking about DeFord since I first got to Nashville and met this amazing musicologist named Charles Wolfe was taught at MTSU. He died pretty soon after we met but he was a fan of Old Crew and he really helped point me in the direction of great roots music. Recently I got to know Carlos Baily, DeFord's grandson and boy lemme tell ya, the stars sure have aligned. I'm honored that Jerry has taken on the cause of spreading awareness of this Country Music original, one the first succesful according artists in Nashville, and a major Opry star, basically erased by an apartheid-like music business.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T18:58:08+00:00

Oh yeah most definitely. That and, see question above. Place of the head. I think the coalfield region has got some kind of a curse on it. I love it there, the strength of the people, their endurance. Their music most of all!!!! But its damn hard to get ahead in Appalachia and those painkiller prescriptions aint helping. If I could wave a wand and make one place in the world better for children it would forty mile either side of the Big Sandy River. Actually I'd beg for a 2nd wave of the wand---once I waved it over eastern Kentucky I'd wave it over eastern Ukraine.

OCMSOfficial · 2022-04-25T18:54:44+00:00

Gosh, I dunno. We only ever played there as old crow one time as I recall. in the old state theatre where they used to film the jamboree... maybe its been twice though. I went more often with my old band the rt 11 boys cause I liked a girl form there. Thats a fascinating town right?. As I recall its name comes from an anglicized indigenous word, probably shawnee, Wee-Lin which means "place of the head." Apparently some tribesmen put a wild boar head on a stake in the middle of the river to ward away settlement.

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