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OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
NEW SINGLE 'BELLE MEADE COCKFIGHT' FEAT. SIERRA FERRELL OUT NOW
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NEW ALBUM 'JUBILEE' OUT 25 AUGUST VIA ATO RECORDS
UK TOUR ANNOUNCED
Two-time GRAMMY award-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show shares their new single 'Belle Meade Cockfight' featuring singer/songwriter Sierra Ferrell. Accompanied by a campy old-school-hoedown music video directed and produced by band member Morgan Jahning, 'Belle Meade Cockfight' is the latest track from the band’s new album 'Jubilee', which releases 25 August via ATO Records. The video was featured this morning at BrooklynVegan, which praised the “energetic, old-timey, rollicking country/bluegrass song".
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“My hometown is the self-proclaimed poultry capital of the world, smack in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia,” explains bandleader Ketch Secor. “I love chickens, have raised 'em from under the lightbulb to the brooder box, and I see their grace and beauty. Poultry makes fantastic fodder for song, always has. I can’t admit to having regularly attended cockfights, only that chickens are in my blood. But songwriting lets you travel the seven seas without leaving your porch swing, or in this case the cockfight ring, so I composed this ditty after extensive research and hope I've done right by the scholars of the sport.” He continues, “I called up Sierra Ferrell and told her I had a ‘cockfight love song’ and needed a sparring partner. Not surprising, she was game. She’s from just over the line in West Virginia and knows a thing or two about the joys of chickens. We dedicate this one to Sarah Cannon, the opulent southern dame behind Minnie Pearl’s folksy persona. Sarah embodied class duality in Country music as only a Shakespearian actress-turned-hayseed-rib-tickler could. The only thing I can think of that better exemplifies Country music’s ability to be at once ‘highfalutin’ and ‘for the people’ would be if they started holding cockfights on Saturday nights in old Belle Meade.”
'Belle Meade Cockfight' follows the album’s debut single 'Miles Away', a sweetly reflective song co-written by Secor and bluegrass virtuoso Molly Tuttle, with guest vocals from Old Crow Medicine Show co-founder Willie Watson. 'Miles Away' marks the first time Watson has recorded with the band in over 10 years.
In addition to Watson and Ferrell, 'Jubilee' also features legendary soul singer Mavis Staples. The album finds Old Crow Medicine Show once again co-producing with Matt Ross-Spang (Drive-By Truckers, St. Paul & the Broken Bones) and recording at their own Hartland Studios. As they gear up to celebrate their 25th anniversary, the band doubles down on their commitment to creating roots music that bears an undeniable urgency, encompassing everything from jug-band tunes to Irish folk songs to exultant gospel jams. The result is a wildly expansive body of work showcasing the dazzling musicality and poetic yet powerfully trenchant storytelling that has made Old Crow Medicine Show one of the most potent and influential forces in American roots music.
'Jubilee' follows the band’s critically acclaimed 2022 release 'Paint This Town', which hit #1 on the Americana Radio Albums Chart and debuted at the top of Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums Chart. Earlier this year, Old Crow Medicine Show released a powerful protest song called 'Louder Than Guns', written in the aftermath of the devastating Covenant School shooting. A father of two and co-founder of The Episcopal School of Nashville, Ketch Secor penned a compelling guest essay for The New York Times, spoke with Rolling Stone, CNN’s The Assignment with Audie Cornish and The CBC, and made impassioned appearances on CNN Tonight, MSNBC’s Morning Joe and KCRW’s Left, Right & Center.
Old Crow Medicine Show return to the UK this autumn for a string of headline shows, including one at London's Eventim Apollo. Tickets are available here.
Mon 30 October - Eventim Apollo, London
Wed 1 Nov - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Thu 2 Nov - Albert Hall, Manchester
'JUBILEE' TRACKLIST
1. Ballad of Jubilee Jones
2. Miles Away (ft. Willie Watson)
3. Keel Over and Die
4. Allegheny Lullaby
5. I Want It Now
6. Smoky Mountain Girl
7. Belle Meade Cockfight (ft. Sierra Ferrell)
8. Shit Kicked In
9. Daughter of the Highlands
10. Wolfman of the Ozarks
11. Nameless, TN
12. One Drop (ft. Mavis Staples)
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