Old Crow Medicine Show Biography

Old Crow Medicine Show Biography

Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time musical group based in Nashville, Tennessee. Ketch Secor graduated in 1996 from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where he learned to play the banjo. He joined with Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson, a native of upstate New York. Willie's friend, Ben Gould, had just procured a stand-up acoustic bass. Together with an already-wandering folk singer, Kevin Hayes, and a painter friend, they gathered in Critter's bedroom to record an album that they could sell on the road. It would be a cassette of ten songs, called Trans:mission.

 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 among 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 other half, guitarist David Rawlings, at the helm. The self-titled 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. The group's second album, Big Iron World was produced by Rawlings and appeared in August of 2006.