Old Crow Medicine Show

Esto reza la web de esta joven banda americana que suena realmente bien:

Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have come full circle playing their own brand of American roots music with a rock and roll attitude. They met in New York in 1998 and hit the road, traveling city to city in a van and busking in the streets. They eventually settled for a year in North Carolina, where they ran into a bit of good fortune while playing in front of a local pharmacy to an impressed Doc Watson; the folk icon promptly scheduled the band to play at his MerleFest.

Soon after, OCMS relocated to Nashville and found themselves gracing the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, touring with Merle Haggard and regularly appearing on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. OCMS can attribute much of their success to their relentless touring schedule. Between headlining shows and countless festivals, the band is constantly on the road and thrives off of their fans and live shows. They have made a name for themselves as energetic performers with an unbridled spirit. Combined, their albums have gone on to sell over 500,000 units.

Vamos, una banda de colegas que no ha parado de tocar de ciudad en ciudad y que tuvo la suerte de que el músico Doc Watson les escuchara mientras tocaban en alguna calle de North Carolina y les invitara a tocar en su festival MerleFest (dedicado a su hijo muerto en 1985). Después de eso han seguido tocando en radios, girando con Merle Haggard y tocando sin parar que es como se han ganado su espacio en esto de la música! Pero es que los chiquillos tienen tablas of course!

Como muestra este tema, es el más famoso, tal vez no sea la mejor manera de presentarlos, pero yo les he conocido con este tema (gràcies Àlex) y he leído que la idea la pillaron de un outtake de Dylan del disco Pat Garret & Billy the Kid, dónde Dylan canta "Rock me mama" (aquí la prueba).

De momento he escuchado sus dos primeros discos y valen la pena! Sabor sureño 100%



Headed down south to the land of the pines
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
Starin' up the road
And pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain't a turnin' back
To livin' that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun
I hear my baby callin' my name
And I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me