Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor To Release Solo Project In July
Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor will release his first solo album Story The Crow Told Me on July 11 on Equal Housing Records via Firebird Music.
Recorded at his own Hartland Studios and co-written/produced with Jody Stevens, Story The Crow Told Me is a coming-of-age saga about a dreamer who carved his path to the top, one song at a time. The album features cameos from Molly Tuttle, Marty Stuart and Old Crow alums Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson, as well as poignant samples from Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
Secor reflects on a quarter century spent in Music City and beyond with the new album that is equal parts coming-of-age story, road-warrior autobiography and love letter to the city that watched him grow into a man. Story The Crow Told Me details a wild and woolly journey through the misfit wilderness of life, love, longing and leaving home, filled with spoken-word performances, punky tempos, bluegrass harmonies and harmonica and fiddle. With the 12 tracks, Secor also showcases the full range of his musical talents, playing nearly a dozen instruments across the album and co-writing every song. Skilled in reinterpreting the sounds of the past for today’s audience, Secor sets the past 25 years of his music-making life to a new soundtrack.
“There are a lot of things happening at this point in my life that are causing me to be more retrospective,” Secor explains. “I’ve been in the game a long time. I do enjoy looking forward, but old-timey music is about simultaneously looking forward and backward at the same time. That’s why it’s a regressive art. You go back with it, but that’s where the strength is. The challenge is to carry the substance of the past into the present.”
In conjunction with the announcement, Secor has also released the debut single from the new project “Dickerson Road,” a tribute to East Nashville’s boulevard of broken dreams featuring guitar from The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston.
About the new single, Secor explains, “The Grand Ole Opry has stars and the Hall of Fame has plaques, and in the year 2000 there was one premier destination for Nashville’s castoffs, rejects, n’er-do-wells, petty thieves, lowlifes, losers and users; so like a barfly to a bottle I went to where I felt I belonged, straight up Dickerson Road. Nowadays you can only catch a fleeting glimpse of the misfit glory that once teemed down this boulevard of broken dreams, but once in awhile I’ll see some stray dog licking at some grease trap and know they’re still clawing their way to the top of trash pile down on The Dick.”
In between Old Crow Medicine Show tour dates, Ketch Secor will hit the road for his solo “Story The Crow Told Me Tour” this July, before jumping on the “Railroad Revival Tour” with Mumford & Sons and Friends in August as a member of the “house band” along with Celisse, Chris Thile, Leif Vollebekk, Lucius, Madison Cunningham, Nathaniel Rateliff and Trombone Shorty.
Story The Crow Told Me Track List:
1. “Busker’s Spell”
2. “Talkin’ Doc Blues”
3. “Ghost Train”
4. “Dickerson Road”
5. “Old Man River”
6. “Catch Me If You Can”
7. “Highland Rim” (feat. Marty Stuart)
8. “Junkin'”
9. “On The Wall”
10. “Thanks Again”
11. “Holes In The Wall”
12. “What Nashville Was”
