When you’re watching this, it is since you love a track — greater than that, you like how somebody performs that track. A number of artists have coated “Wagon Wheel,” an inescapable staple of folks festivals and hootenannies. However you realize what? Nobody performs that ramblin’ folks stomper fairly like Previous Crow Medication Present. So right here, 20 years after the band recorded and turned it right into a phenomenon, Ketch Secor and his band open their Tiny Desk with “Wagon Wheel.”
For practically three a long time, Previous Crow Medication Present has served up a revved-up tackle old-time music, folks, bluegrass, nation and every thing else tossed into what we name roots music. That vitality, nonetheless wired from its early busking days, interprets right here because the band runs by means of “O Cumberland River” and “Wolfman of the Ozarks,” full with train-chugging harmonica and a jaw harp duet. The group closes with “One Drop,” a hopeful, gospel-style name for unity in a second we may all use some.
SET LIST
- “Wagon Wheel”
- “O Cumberland River”
- “Wolfman of the Ozarks”
- “One Drop”
MUSICIANS
- Ketch Secor: fiddle, vocals
- Morgan Jahnig: upright bass, vocals
- Cory Younts: mandolin, keys, vocals
- Mike Harris: dobro, banjo, electrical guitar, vocals
- PJ George: acoustic guitar, keys, vocals
- Dante’ Pope: percussion, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Alanté Serene
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Hazel Cills, Josh Newell
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
