Old Crow Medicine Show Slates ‘The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots’

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Old Crow Medicine Show. Photo: Brooke Stevens

Old Crow Medicine Show have plotted “The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots,” kicking off March 18 in Nashville.

The 11 city tour will visit Knoxville, Charleston, Savannah and more before wrapping at MerleFest April 24-25. The run of intimate shows will celebrate the band’s earliest recordings and some of the places where the songs were born. During the set, OCMS will perform the entirety of their first two releases, O.C.M.S. and Big Iron World, acoustically.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 22 years since the launch of our O.C.M.S. album and 20 years since our second studio record, Big Iron World,” says frontman Ketch Secor. “Working with David Rawlings plus the presence of Gillian Welch is what really made the magic on these albums. Being a string band back in the early 2000s, well ahead of the Americana music movement, made us an odd fit in Music City. But going our own way despite the odds was the only foreseeable path for fiddles and banjos in the 21st century, and it worked. People heard it all around the world, and the doors came swinging open.”

Tickets go on sale Friday (Jan. 23) at 10 a.m. local time.

“The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots” Dates:
March 18 – Nashville, TN @ Station Inn
March 19 – Boone, NC @ Appalachian Theatre
March 20 – Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre
March 21 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
March 22 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
March 31 – Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre
April 1 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Gaillard Center
April 2 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
April 3 – Savannah, GA @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
April 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
April 24–25 – Wilkesboro, NC @ MerleFest

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