Old Crow Medicine Show, or sometimes known as O.C.M.S., is the 2004 debut full-length release by the acoustic quintet, Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time string band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their music has been called bluegrass, Americana, and alt-country, in addition to old-time. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs...

. The songs are roughly an even split of obscure traditional tunes and original compositions by the band members. It includes the band's signature tune, "Wagon Wheel

Wagon Wheel (song)

"Wagon Wheel" is the title of a song originally sketched by Bob Dylan and later completed by Old Crow Medicine Show. Old Crow Medicine Show's version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 2011.-Content:...

", which is based on a fragment of a Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 song. The album was produced by David Rawlings

David Rawlings

David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....

. Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...

 makes a cameo playing the drums.

Track listing

1. "Tell It to Me" (traditional) - 2:47
2. "Big Time in the Jungle" (Critter Fuqua) - 2:49
3. "Poor Man" (traditional) - 3:35
4. "Tear It Down" (traditional) - 2:11
5. "Hard to Love" (traditional) - 2:30
6. "CC Rider" (Ma Rainey
   Ma Rainey
   Ma Rainey was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues....
   
   ) - 3:50
7. "Trials & Troubles" (Ketcham Secor, Willie Watson) - 2:57
8. "Hard to Tell" (Ketcham Secor) - 3:15
9. "Take 'Em Away" (Critter Fuqua) - 3:35
10. "We're All in This Together" (Ketcham Secor, Willie Watson) - 4:50
11. "Wagon Wheel
    Wagon Wheel (song)
    "Wagon Wheel" is the title of a song originally sketched by Bob Dylan and later completed by Old Crow Medicine Show. Old Crow Medicine Show's version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 2011.-Content:...
    
    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    , Ketcham Secor) - 3:52

Chart performance

Chart (2004)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums	1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	68

The band

• Critter Fuqua - Banjo, Guitar, Vocals, Bottleneck Guitar
• Kevin Hayes - Guit-jo
• Morgan Jahnig - Bass (Upright)
• Ketcham Secor - Banjo, Fiddle, Harmonica, Vocals
• Willie Watson - Banjo, Guitar, Vocals

Guest musicians

• David Rawlings
  David Rawlings
  David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....
  
   - Guitar
• Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
  
   - Drums
• Randy Thompson
  Randy Thompson
  Randy Thompson is a Virginia based americana/country music singer and songwriter. He is a lifelong resident of the Clifton, Virginia area.He has toured in France, Germany, Switzerland as well as the United States.As of 2010 he has released 4 recordings:...
  
  - Harmonica

Releases

year	format	label	catalog #
2004	CD	Nettwerk	30349
2004	CD	Nettwerk	092460
2006	CD	Nettwerk	303492
2004	CD	EMI	5982352

External links

• O.C.M.S., page from the band's official web site