If you happen to’re watching this, it is since you love a track — greater than that, you like how somebody performs that track. A number of artists have lined “Wagon Wheel,” an inescapable staple of folks festivals and hootenannies. However you realize what? Nobody performs that ramblin’ people stomper fairly like Previous Crow Drugs Present. So right here, 20 years after the band recorded and turned it right into a phenomenon, Ketch Secor and his band open their Tiny Desk with “Wagon Wheel.”
For almost three many years, Previous Crow Drugs Present has served up a revved-up tackle old-time music, people, bluegrass, nation and all the things else tossed into what we name roots music. That power, nonetheless wired from its early busking days, interprets right here because the band runs by means of “O Cumberland River” and “Wolfman of the Ozarks,” full with train-chugging harmonica and a jaw harp duet. The group closes with “One Drop,” a hopeful, gospel-style name for unity in a second we might all use some.
SET LIST
- “Wagon Wheel”
- “O Cumberland River”
- “Wolfman of the Ozarks”
- “One Drop”
MUSICIANS
- Ketch Secor: fiddle, vocals
- Morgan Jahnig: upright bass, vocals
- Cory Younts: mandolin, keys, vocals
- Mike Harris: dobro, banjo, electrical guitar, vocals
- PJ George: acoustic guitar, keys, vocals
- Dante’ Pope: percussion, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Alanté Serene
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
- Tiny Desk Crew: Hazel Cills, Josh Newell
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins