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Old Crow Medicine Show

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'Wagon Wheel' originators and old-time revivalists — a string band that plays with punk-rock urgency.

Old Crow Medicine Show formed in 1998 and built its early reputation busking, including a stretch outside a pharmacy in Boone, North Carolina, where Doc Watson heard them and invited them to play his MerleFest. Led by singer and fiddler Ketch Secor, the band plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica and upright bass in an old-time string band configuration, but with a loud, fast, rowdy attack drawn as much from punk as from the Appalachian repertoire they study. Their best-known song, "Wagon Wheel," grew out of an unfinished Bob Dylan sketch that Secor completed, and later became a country standard. The group are members of the Grand Ole Opry and have recorded both original material and full-album tributes.

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