(NGC) - Music, impressed by a band that I was not expecting to be impressed by.

[Gliderjohn]

Went to see and hear "Old Crow Medicine Show" last night in what was about a 1930s vintage theature in Salina,KS. which seats 1,200. They play what I would call progressive bluegrass and rock a billy. All six members are excellent musicians with all able to play multiple instruments very well. Very audeance interactive with a high energy performance. If you are into this kind of music at all you don't want to miss them.
GliderJohn

[Lannis]

Went to see and hear "Old Crow Medicine Show" last night in what was about a 1930s vintage theature in Salina,KS. which seats 1,200. They play what I would call progressive bluegrass and rock a billy. All six members are excellent musicians with all able to play multiple instruments very well. Very audeance interactive with a high energy performance. If you are into this kind of music at all you don't want to miss them.
GliderJohn

I pulled up one of their videos and watched it; they ARE pretty good.

There are some world-class musicians out there that just will never make the Big Time so you have to go see them where you can ....

Lannis

[Two Checks]

They were recurring guests on  the Marty Stuart show for years.

[kidsmoke]

I pulled up one of their videos and watched it; they ARE pretty good.

There are some world-class musicians out there that just will never make the Big Time so you have to go see them where you can ....

Lannis

Never make the big time?

They had a song go Platinum 14 years ago. Platinum. Most would consider that 'big time'. As a an MC hosting open mics in Chicago for many years, anyone playing 'that damn song' was obligated to buy a round for the house. It's ubiquitous, seems to make every set list of every frickin' cover band out there. Before this thread I considered them a household name.

You're right about the abundance of world Class Musicians we'll never hear of though. That's a fact, and a shame. I believe it says more about the evolution of innernet media and the dissolution of the corporate music industry, for good and ill.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side - Hunter S Thompson

[Toecutter]

OCMS are big time.


"Wagon Wheel" is absolutely essential for any decent, self respecting modern roots band to know, and every folkie and hippie from Inuvik to Tijuana knows the words to it.

[kidsmoke]

[Lannis]

Never make the big time?

They had a song go Platinum 14 years ago. Platinum. Most would consider that 'big time'.

I didn't mean to cast any aspersions on them .... I've been to listen to Bill Emerson at a coffee shop here in town with 5 other people in the room, and Ralph Stanley at the Iroquois Club in Roanoke VA with 25 other people in the audience, and they were both the biggest of big time in their field ...

Lannis