Various Artists The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver (ATO) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars John Denver was never hip. He had coke bottle glasses, a soccer mom haircut and a wholesome, “aww shucks!” demeanor that contrasted sharply with the R-rated excesses of ‘70s rock & roll. The guy could write, though, [...]

Critter Fuqua enrolled in college a few years ago to study the history of the English language, and maybe gain deeper insight into centuries-old folk ballads in the process. Before his recent return to Old Crow Medicine Show – the hot and with-it old-time string band he co-founded in 1998 and officially departed a little [...]

Old Crow Medicine Show performed songs from their new album Carry Me Back at Woods Ampitheater, Nashville, TN, 7/28/12.

Old Crow Medicine Show Carry Me Back (ATO Records) Rating: 4 stars What’s great about the new album from Old Crow Medicine Show? Well, everything, really. As they have since they released their debut way back in 2004, their mastery of the idiom is on full display, their songwriting is equal to the great names [...]

On July 17, beloved string band Old Crow Medicine Show will return with their fourth studio album, Carry Me Back, on ATO Records. The new, 12-song disc was produced by Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Mollys) and recorded at Sound Emporium studios in Nashville, where classic albums like the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, REM’s [...]

If five days on a train with over one hundred dirty, loud and often-drunk people who boast about never showering sounds like an absolute nightmare then, well, you’ve boarded the wrong locomotive. On the “Big Easy Express,” which screened last night as part of the Nashville Film Festival, it’s Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & [...]

On February 28, Nashville stalwart Chuck Mead (BR549) will release Back At The Quonset Hut, his take on twelve classic country songs, via Ramseur Records. The album was recorded with the aid of Nashville’s finest old school session musicians — Harold Bradley, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Bob Moore and Buddy Spicher — and special guests Jamey [...]

Day 3 I should admit that minutes after writing yesterday’s post, specifically the part about “embracing the gross,” I broke down and took the first shower of my Bonnaroo career. It was totally worth it. Every year, there’s a point where you need to recharge your Bonnaroo batteries and start anew. Getting cleaned up was [...]

It was their second consecutive attempt to carve out an indelible moment in Bonnaroo history, and “it band” of the moment Mumford & Sons did not disappoint. The British folk-rockers turned in an inspired, impassioned performance under the Bonnaroo sun that left everybody talking. By mid-afternoon, the crowd to see them had swelled beyond the [...]

The Railroad Revival Tour is over, but the memories live on. Check out this VH1 video of traveling folkies Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe And Old Crow Medicine Show covering original wandering minstrel Woody Guthrie’s “This Train Is Bound For Glory” during a Railroad Revival stop in Austin, Texas. It’s a special hootenanny you won’t [...]

Following in the footsteps of the Grateful Dead, The Band, and Janis Joplin, who banded together to tour Canada by train in 1970, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show have announced a joint tour this April that will be conducted by railroad. The Railroad Revival Tour will [...]