Old Crow Medicine Show is ready to celebrate Jubilee.
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The band has announced that their new album, Jubilee, will be released on August 25. A dozen songs feature appearances by Mavis Staples on the closing track, “One Drop” and Americana singer Sierra Ferrell on the humorously titled “Belle Meade Cockfight.”
The album also marks the grand return of Old Crow Medicine Show co-founder Willie Watson, who sings guest vocals on lead single “Miles Away,” which was written by frontman Ketch Secor and 2023 Grammy Best New Artist nominee Molly Tuttle. Watson was one of the founding members of Old Crow Medicine Show in Ithaca, New York, in the late 1990s. “Miles Away” marks the first time Watson’s recorded with the band since he left in 2011.
“This is one of those rearview songs where objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. 25 years of making music on the road means you’re always coming back to the same places as a different person; there’s a reminder of your past self and the choices you made back when,” Secor explains in a press release about the meaning of “Miles Away.” “Molly Tuttle and I wrote this one together and when it was through, I asked my Old Crow co-founder Willie Watson to make his first appearance on an Old Crow record in years. After all, this is a song about amends, of bygones being bygones, and of renewal.”
Jubilee is described as “somewhat of a companion piece” to Old Crow’s 2022 album, Paint This Town, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart. Watson will join Old Crow Medicine Show on their 2023 tour as an opening act and will play as part of the band. The tour kicks off in Secor’s native Virginia on Friday (June 23) and continues through New Year’s Eve where it wraps with a two-night stay at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on December 30 and 31.
An album track list and the band’s 2023 tour dates follow.
Jubilee Track list:
1. “Jubilee Jones”
2. “Miles Away” (ft. Willie Watson)
3. “Keel Over and Die”
4. “Allegheny Lullabye”
5. “I Want It Now”
6. “Smoky Mountain Girl”
7. “Belle Meade Cockfight” (ft. Sierra Ferrell)
8. “Shit Kicked In”
9. “Daughter of the Highlands”
10. “Wolfman of the Ozarks”
11. “Nameless, Tennessee”
12. “One Drop” (ft. Mavis Staples)
Old Crow Medicine Show 2023 Tour Dates:
June 23 – Mount Solon, VA @ Red Wing Roots Festival
June 24 – Owensboro, KY @ ROMP Fest
July 6 – Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Music & Arts Festival ^
July 7 – Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater +
July 8 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre +
July 9 – Spokane, WA @ Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox ^
July 11 – Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater ^
July 12 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM ^
July 13 – Park City, UT @ Deer Valley Summer Concert Series ^
July 14 – Nampa, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater +
July 15 – Fort Collins, CO @ The Gardens at Spring Creek SOLD OUT
July 16 – Vail, CO @ Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater %
July 17 – Grand Junction, CO @ Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park %
July 19 – Tucson, AZ @ Fox Tucson Theatre %
July 20 – San Diego, CA @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay %
July 21 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheater +
July 22 – Chandler, AZ @ Chandler Center for the Arts %
July 23 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Pepsi Amphitheater %
July 28 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field #
August 2 – Redmond, OR @ Deschutes County Fairgrounds
August 5 – Ninilchik, AK @ SalmonFest
August 12 – Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Folk Festival (Gallagher Park)
August 23 – Deerfield, MA @ Tree House Brewing Company SOLD OUT
August 24 – Shelburne, VT @ Concerts on the Green SOLD OUT
August 25 – Bangor, ME @ Maine Savings Amphitheater +
August 26 – Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion +
August 27 – Hammondsport, NY @ Point of the Bluff Vineyards
September 7 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Evans Amphitheater – Cain Park
September 8 – Mount Vernon, KY @ Renfro Valley Entertainment Center
September 9 – Shipshewana, IN @ Blue Gate PAC
September 16 – Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond
September 22 – Camden, NJ @ XPoNential Music Festival
October 6 – Monterey, CA @ Rebels & Renegades Music Festival
December 30 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
December 31 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
^ with Willie Watson
+ with Hank Williams Jr.
% with Pillbox Patti
# with Luke Combs
Photo Credit: Joshua Black Wilkins/Courtesy of Missing Piece Group
