![]() One report on Wiki says that “The group reportedly performed the song in Nashville in 2001, as part of a series of songs commemorating Bob Dylan’s 60th birthday long before they had a recording contract with a major label. It’s popularity built up, it seems, by word of mouth rather than by hype or a big radio push, and not because it was released as a Bob Dylan original or anything like that.Īnd after 16 years it turned into a gold disc.īut it didn’t stop there because now it is often said that the song is not just Old Crow Medicine Show’s signature song, it is actually bigger in some ways bigger than the group itself”. ![]() The chord structure is a classic (A, E, F#m, D) and there it is: dead simple. So Secor did the re-write and got Bob Dylan to agree to a co-writing copyright contract, apparently at 50/50.Īnd thus we have a song that deals with hitchhiking from north America. The original source of Bob Dylan’s sketch was noted as “Rock Me Mama” in 1973, a phrase that Dylan had apparently taken from Arthur Crudup. I was a teenager who was really turned on to Bob.” Every album and every outtake of every album and every live record I could get my hands on and every show I could go see live. ![]() “I listened to Bob Dylan and nothing else. Secor himself was a Dylan fan as he stated in one interview: That seems a bit heavy, but it is sort of right, and yet this is what Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show took and to which he added verses about hitchhiking home. It has been written that the Dylan original is “not so much a song as a sketch, crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out”. In this review I’m giving links to Dylan’s original improvised sketch of the song made during the “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” rehearsals but I’ve had such a jolly morning playing through the history of this song, I want to start with this version, not least because I love Old Crow Medicine Show (as I might have mentioned in connection with Visions of Johanna). Yes, I know Dylan is “It’s alright ma” and “Desolation Row” and “It’s not dark yet” and “Tell Ol Bill” and on and on – but in terms of his the oft used rambling methodology of this overwhelmingly brilliant songwriter, this is the perfect example which is why I love the coincidence that it became review 500. Except it gets picked up years later and becomes a monumental hit. He knocks out a few lines and makes up a few more plus the accompaniment and melody on the spot, he does a very hard to understand rough recording, and then they don’t use the song in the film. What a wonderful way to reach review number 500 on this site, a song that for me sums up Dylan across the years.
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