Remedy

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Old Crow Medicine Show return with producer Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, <i>Carry Me Back</i>) onboard for their fifth album and most professional-sounding to date, <i>Remedy</i>. Ten years after Bob Dylan sent Old Crow’s bandleader and fiddler Ketch Secor the worktape for what became the classic “Wagon Wheel,” the two again collaborated on the excellent “Sweet Amarillo,” a song that explains in three and a half minutes everything that's hopeful and wonderful about Old Crow Medicine Show. They know how to jam like an Appalachian version of The Band, breaking through “Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer” with a carefree sense that obscures their studied chops. The banjos get firing on “8 Dogs 8 Banjos” and “Mean Enough World.” When in need of moderation, the Show offer up the weeper “Dearly Departed Friend” and the modest “Firewater” before turning back into a wild mountain-music jam for “Brave Boys.” Bluegrass never sounded more punk than on “S**t Creek.” Naturally, they end on a spirited but restrained note with “The Warden.”

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