Old Crow Medicine Show

When I was going to bed the other night, my son's radio was on, I heard something that a put a smile on face, a song called CC Rider.

So with that in mind, I tuned my radio in BBC radio 2, it was the Mark Lemar show and the band who were singing CC Rider, were doing a live session.

The band is Old Crow Medicine Show. I first came accross them 3 or so years ago, quite by accident really, I was reading my the gig guide in my local rag, and there was a rather nice little write up about them, and there music, and they were playing a gig at St Bonaventure's in Bristol. So with that I had got some tickets and the Hubby and I enjoyed a toe tapping, foot stomping night with fantastic music.

The best way to describe Old Crow would be (taken from there website)

From busking in the streets of Nashville to headlining the historic Ryman Auditorium, Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have come full circle playing their own brand of American roots music with a rock and roll attitude. The quintet met in New York state and hit the road, traveling city to city in a van and eventually settling for a year in North Carolina, where they ran into a bit of good fortune while playing in front of a local pharmacy to an impressed Doc Watson; the folk icon promptly scheduled the band to play at his MerleFest.

Its lovely to hear the sounds of the 5 string banjo, violin, double bass, guitjo and harmonica, making the sounds of the old rail raod train (to understand this you need to have a listen....)