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2018 Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua of Old Crow Medicine Show
001-2018-016
46:12 Master Camera files on Hard Drive, Mp4 on Server and Cloud
2018-05-03
Interviewer - Keith Spera
ABSTRACT: 01:49 Demonstration, “Tiger Rag” 05:40 Secor speaks to his and the band’s ties to New Orleans. 09:20 Demonstration 12:48 The band describes some of their experience busking in New Orleans, and how busking gave them their start and honed their skills with audiences. 15:16 Secor explains how an encounter with Doc Watson when they were busking in Boone, North Carolina constituted a big break in their career, getting them a gig at Merle Fest, which they succeeded at by doing it their own way, street style. That attracted the attention of a woman from the Grand old opry, which set them on a roll. 17:37 Demonstration, Dewey Balfa 20:55 Fuqua and Secor explain the obscure origins and mystery of “Wagon Wheel,” which they’d thought sprang from a Bob Dylan bootleg, but wound up being traced to Big Bill Broonzy. 25:18 Demonstration, “City of New Orleans” 31:41 Secor discusses the Railroad Revival Tour and the documentary about it, The Big Easy Express. He explains the cultural re-appropriation that penetrates New Orleans, and his desire to embody it from elsewhere. 35:19 Demonstration 39:21 Secor gets into their latest album, Fifty Years of Blonde on Blonde, explaining its intent to put that Dylan music into the folk music canon, taking 1966 Nashville back to 1926. 41:01 Fuqua alludes to a negative festival experience involving woods, ticks, and police. 42:36 Secor gives some background to “Jim Jones” and explains that they’ve never recorded it. 44:00 Secor introduces the band.
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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive