Music CD - Old Crow Medicine Show: O.C.M.S.

	Music CD: O.C.M.S. Artist: Old Crow Medicine Show List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.99 Your Save: $ 3.99 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
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Tracks: 1. Tell It To Me 2. Big Time In The Jungle 3. Poor Man 4. Tear It Down 5. Hard To Love 6. CC Rider 7. Trials & Troubles 8. Hard To Tell 9. Take 'em Away 10. We're All In This Together 11. Wagon Wheel
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0067003034920 Label: Nettwerk Records Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nettwerk Records Release Date: 2004-02-10 Studio: Nettwerk Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Solid Album & Refreshing 'New' Sound From Old Genras Comment: Old Crow Medicine Show has taken bluegrass, rock and country music and, IMO, fused it into some real good-time music. While the Album is strong throughout, "Wagon Wheel" is what I would call their signature song. It's catchy and will appeal to anybody who loves lively music and who does not have a built in bias against vocals with a twang. I've seen them live and they were great. While their second CD does not have a song as catchy as "Wagon Wheel", I think OCMS's second album is more consistent throughout than this CD. Customer Rating: Summary: A Modern Bluegrass Classic Comment: These gorgeous bluegrass boys solidified their Classic Status with this album - a dynamic ebb and flow of roots bluegrass and heartfelt folk with a punch of punk to boot. They play old school yet so modern and fresh. My mark of a great band is if they can hold up and shine live, and believe me, they Bring Down the House, or Tear the Roof Off, or any other construction/housing analogy you wish... CLASSIC. Customer Rating: Summary: Great stuff - get it now Comment: This is great music, even if you don't like bluegrass. Alos pick up O.C.M.S.'s "Big Iron World" as it is even better. J. Customer Rating: Summary: Old Crow Medicine Show Comment: These guys are too young to sound like old hillbilies. I was looking for a little bit more current genre. Customer Rating: Summary: OCMS Comment: These are very talented young men, their voices, their visions. With this combination of traditional and self-written music, Old Crow has given us a lively and poignant sense of life. And did I mention that they have talent? Check the insert; see who is playing which instrument. If you have the opportunity to see these guys perform live, go. They are a gift. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: During the "folk music-scare" of the early 1960s, a bunch of white middle-class youths with names like the Greenbriar Boys and the Even Dozen Jug Band discovered the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, Skillet Lickers, and Uncle Dave Macon and set about introducing it to the country's college kids. Four decades later, the members of OCMS fit the profile of those early revivalists, yet if anything they have tapped deeper into the primal elements of an American art form. As demonstrated on their debut, they have assimilated not just the sound--banjos, harmonicas, acoustic guitar and bass--but more importantly the haunting spirit of music that was made to keep hard times at bay. How else to explain their ability to take a well-worn chestnut like "CC Rider" and infuse it with an energy that reveals once again why it is a classic? Not content to live completely in the past, they wrote "Big Time in the Jungle," which, though it is about Vietnam, could easily be transposed to 2004's desert conflicts. Kindred spirit and producer David Rawlings (Gillian Welch's longtime collaborator) has kept their energy intact, but one can only wonder what sort of magic they must deliver live. --Michael Ross