★★★★★
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 in American music (think Cash and Nelson), their musicianship is without peer and their energy remains as tight as a drum and as brash as a punk rocker...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
may be the poster boys for the roots revival of the 2010s, but the were a step ahead. The group's fiery string-band revivalism was a key inspiration to the English folkies (who invited them aboard 2011's trans-American Railroad Revival Tour), and they were mining the riches of old-time music long before the Londoners unleashed their tweed-cap chic. This is a band which has always whipped up a storm on stage, too...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Old Crow Medicine ShowCarry Me BackAto Records2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album The Nashville group almost imploded making...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-17
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Carry Me Away Bluegrass fans have reason to get excited once again. Old Crow Medicine Show are back with their latest release, Carry Me Back, out July 17th (ATO). Over the past 14 years, the six person band of brothers; Ketch Secor, Critter Fuqua, Kevin Hayes, Morgan Jahnig, Gill Landry and Chance McCoy have seamlessly made bluegrass cool and have picked up where they've left off with 2008's Tennessee Pusher...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-07-23
★★★★★
I imagine there are a lot of folks these days who claim to have witnessed the boys of Old Crow Medicine Show busking on the picturesque sidewalks of Boone, North Carolina, a little over a decade ago...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-23
★★★★★
With the recent success of bands like Mumford And Sons and The Avett Brothers, bluegrass-tinged folk rock has become increasingly trendy, even seeping into American Idol via this past season's winner, Phillip Phillips...
- www.avclub.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Definitive statement from the whip-smart, uncompromising string band... Since 1998, when old-time music buffs Ketch Secor, Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson first joined forces as travelling buskers, the Old Crow Medicine Show have survived and prospered through a combination of serendipity and resoucefulness. After relocating from upstate New York to the Appalachian village of Boone, N.C...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2012-07-16
★★★★★
On Carry Me Back, Old Crow Medicine Show rediscovers the mojo they lost on 2008's dour, self-serious Tennessee Pusher. It's not that OCMS can't pull off something weighty (the deeply humanist "I Hear Them All" from 2006's Big Iron World remains one of their very best singles), but they're at their best when they chase their bigger ideas with a shot of piss and vinegar...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-07-16
★★★★★
Take only one glance at the cover of O.C.M.S., the debut album from Old Crow Medicine Show, and you'd be forgiven for thinking the band was comprised of bit players from Johnny Knoxville's Jackass troupe--skinny guys with messy hair sporting ratty T-shirts, sunglasses, and Converse sneakers. Take a closer look and you'll discover these same hip guys toting their instruments: upright bass, fiddle, banjo...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20