Columbia Records Nashville is pleased to announce the signing of the critically acclaimed, GRAMMY-Award winning, Country Music Roots ensemble Old Crow Medicine Show to the Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records Nashville imprint. WATCH how the band surprised the Sony Music Nashville staff with the news.
On April 28, Columbia Nashville will release the Old Crow Medicine Show special recording of 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde to celebrate 50 years since the release of Bob Dylan’s iconic album Blonde on Blonde, which was recorded partly in Nashville, TN. Fans of Bob Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show and great music can pre-order 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde beginning this Friday, February 24.
The 14-track album, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde, was recorded LIVE at the CMA Theater located inside the historic Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum located in Nashville, TN in May 2016. Mixed by GRAMMY Award-winning Ted Hutt and Ryan Mall.
“Fifty years is a long time for a place like Nashville, Tennessee. Time rolls on slowly around here like flotsam and jetsam in the muddy Cumberland River. But certain things have accelerated the pace of our city. And certain people have sent the hands of the clock spinning. Bob Dylan is the greatest of these time-bending, paradigm-shifting Nashville cats,” says Ketch Secor, the primary vocalist of the Old Crow Medicine Show.
“By deciding to record his newly found rock n’ roll voice in 1966 Nashville, Bob swung the gates of Country music wide open; so wide, in fact, that 50 years later there was still enough of a crack left for Old Crow Medicine Show to sneak its banjos and fiddles through the gates with string band swagger.”
As a band that got their start busking on city streets, Old Crow Medicine Show is no stranger to the road. Today the Grand Ole Opry Members announce a special tour, Old Crow Medicine Show Performing Blonde on Blonde. Kicking off in Santa Barbara, Ca at the Granada Theatre on May 4th, the band will perform the album in its entirety at each show. Old Crow Medicine Show Performing Blonde on Blonde tour will take Old Crow Medicine Show to 26 cities including Los Angeles, New York City, London, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC, with the promise of additional dates to be announced. Full list of dates listed below.
Old Crow Medicine Show Performing Blonde on Blonde
TOUR DATES
May 4 – Santa Barbara, CA – The Granada Theatre
May 5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
May 6 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
May 8 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
May 10 – Seattle, WA – The Moore Theatre
May 12 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Hall at Eccles Theater
May 13 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen
May 14 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
May 20 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre
May 22 – Washington DC – Lincoln Theatre
May 24 – New York, NY – The Town Hall
May 25 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
May 28 – Cooperstown, NY – Brewery Ommegang
May 30 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
May 31 – Columbus, OH – EXPRESS LIVE!
June 1 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
June 2 – Louisville, KY – Iroquois Amphitheater
June 8 – Chicago, IL – The Vic Theatre
June 9 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
June 10 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theatre
June 11 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
June 12 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
UK/Netherlands
June 24 – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
June 25 – Glasgow, UK – O2ABC
June 28 – London, UK – Shepherd’s Bush Empire
June 30 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
About Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show is comprised of members Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig, Chance McCoy, Cory Younts, Kevin Hayes and Critter Fuqua. The Country Music Roots band and Grand Ole Opry members have five studio albums to their credit, Old Crow Medicine Show (2004), Big Iron World (2006), Tennessee Pusher (2008), Carry Me Back (2012), Remedy (2014) and appeared on countless albums by other artists. They’ve established a global tour following, received the Americana Music Association Trailblazer Award and shared the stage with artists such as Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, John Prine and The Avett Brothers. The PLATINUM selling band are two-time GRAMMY-winners including Best Folk Album in 2014.
For more information on Old Crow Medicine Show, contact:
Fount Lynch fount.lynch@sonymusic.com or Mary Catherine Kinney marycatherine.kinney@sonymusic.com
at Sony Music Nashville 615-301-4300
Jim Flammia jim@alleyesmedia.com or
Donica Christensen Elliott donica@alleyesmedia.com
at All Eyes Media 615-227-2770