Old Crow Medicine Show release their new record Union Made with Hartland Records via Firebird Music. The album finds the two-time Grammy-winning string band reflecting upon the people, places, and stories of a nation-state on the brink of its 250th birthday. It was inspired by the band’s nearly 30-year trek from the street corners of Western North Carolina to the nation’s most celebrated stages. They say the album is a love letter to the America that was, the America that is, and the America that could be. The band has spent more than a quarter century blending the vernacular traditions of old-school America, including mountain music, bluegrass, old-time, and folk, into modern songs that continue to resonate across generations and geographies.
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According to the fifth song on their first Christmas album, seasonal shenanigans in Old Crow Medicine Show’s family are boozy and raucous.
Step aside Santa because “Grandpappy’s been a-brewing since before the war” and is “the best bootlegger for a Georgia mile”. The result is the riotous barndance fiddlin’ of “Corn Whiskey Christmas” (which brings “good cheer to all the gals and the fellas).
The song is a highlight of OCMS XMAS, a 13-track set which showcases the light-hearted side of a Nashville outfit who’ve been at the forefront of the US bluegrass revival for over two decades. This December they’re creating Irish jigs about the Krampus (“a mean old goat with horns on his head”) but, over their career, they’ve…