Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher (Dig)
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Artist: Old Crow Medicine ShowEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Music Label: Nettwerk Records
Soundtracks:
- Alabama High-Test
- Highway Halo
- The Greatest Hustler of All
- Methamphetamine
- Next Go 'Round
- Humdinger
- Motel in Memphis
- Evening Sun
- Mary's Kitchen
- Crazy Eyes
- Tennessee Pusher
- Lift Him Up
- Caroline
Music reviews of Tennessee Pusher (Dig)
Music Review: A Solid Studio Effort from this great Live Band
Rating: 4 Stars
Like many people, I first became entranced by the Old Crow Medicine Show after seeing them live, which is like being hit by a baseball bat. Live, these boys knock you out, with their performance energy, with the quality of the songs, and with the general feeling you take away, like you just saw something that is connected palpably to a time in the past before TV, before CDs, before radio even. I think it's a compliment of the highest order to say that an OCMS live show is almost 'punk' in it's energy; you feel like you are on a street corner, watching them play for money to live on (which they used to do) or in a dance hall at an indeterminate point in history, watching them play because playing was keeping them and everybody in the audience alive. People who have seen that live know that I'm not really exaggerating.
Their albums up to this point have always captured that energy. And the reason I am giving them 4 instead of 5 stars is that this is the first album that feels like a studio album. Having said that, I will also say that this is a studio album that was done at the perfect point in their career: not too early, not too late, and the legendary Don Was also seems like the Perfect Producer for this Perfect Time. These boys are serious artists, and this is an album that reflects that. Mind you, it is nowhere near being an 'overproduced' album; all the instrumentation is clean, and you can hear every instrument and that they are (when they are) acoustic.
There is a bit more of a slightly somber feel to the songs as well. Even "Mary's Kitchen", the biggest romp, has a more *controlled* feel than a song like that would have been on the other albums. (Their other two albums were largely just recorded live in the studio, which is a great introduction to OCMS.) It's almost like the influence of Gillian Welch is present, beyond the presence of David Rawlings (who has co-written one of the songs on this album, and produced the last two albums for OCMS.) Just as Gillian Welch (and I mean the 'group' Gillian Welch, composed of Ms. Welch and Mr. Rawlings) has a gravitas to even their most light-hearted songs, and that pull can sometimes be heard on other artists of the same ilk, so too is OCMS influenced by the seriousness of craft of their long-time association w/ Mr. Rawlings in particular and the Quality Americana Music Scene in general.
The addition of Jim Keltner on drums is a telling sign for this album; the long-time string band aversion to a drummers notwithstanding, the presence of this Session Veteran here feels like an organic fit. OCMS has a habit of being genre-defying, but this time that is especially true; it's really hard to pin them down as Americana, Folk, Bluegrass or even Country. It's all just Good Music.
Description of Tennessee Pusher (Dig)
Old Crow Medicine Show release in 2008 their third Nettwerk album called Tennessee Pusher. Produced by the legendary Don Was (Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones), the album features the first single "Caroline" along with 11 other Old Crow originals and an American standard called "Lift Him Up" by Blind Alfred Reed. Having sold over 290K albums, OCMS can attribute much of their success to their relentless touring schedule. Between headlining shows and countless festivals (Bonnaroo, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, etc), the band lives on the road - they thrive on the communal experience of the live shows. OCMS have made a name for themselves as energetic performers with an unbridled spirit."As musicians, songwriters and singers, they are the smartest and finest purveyors of American music to come down the pike in decades." - Don WasCountry CDs
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