Reggae Rock News

 Old Crow Medicine Show, who will be playing this year’s BeachLife Ranch Festival this Friday, 9/16 @ 6:20pm on The Hither Stage. The Grammy-winning band is touring in support of their critically acclaimed album Paint This Town. I was hoping you might check this out and possibly keep them in mind for your upcoming festival coverage?

One of the most influential and enduring roots bands of the last two decades, Old Crow is in top form right now with truly their best lineup to date (view their recent live performance of “Paint This Town” to see what I mean). These guys are masters at merging profound songwriting with a rowdy string band revival sound, and their new album is no exception. It’s garnered high praise from press including American Songwriter, Consequence, Rolling Stone, Garden & Gun and Associated Press, with many of them calling this their best record yet! The band’s latest single “Gloryland” features stunning background vocals from the Kyshona Trio, and was recently praised by NPR Music, who said “If this is any indication of what Old Crow Medicine Show still has in store so many recordings in its career, we should count ourselves lucky.”

The guys will tell you this record is special because it found them falling back in love with the band all over again, and it really shows. They took a far more insular approach than on previous releases, co-producing with Matt Ross-Spang and recording in their own East Nashville-based Hartland Studio (which they bought and fixed up at the start of the pandemic). As a longtime Old Crow fan, I think they sound more like themselves here than ever before. It’s like they’ve unlocked a new level of creative freedom, and it’s certainly paying off. In addition to receiving some of the best press of their extensive career, the album’s debut single “Paint This Town” sat at the top of the Americana Singles Radio Chart for a month straight, and they’re at well over 1M monthly listeners on Spotify right now.

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