{"id":8187,"date":"2011-05-25T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:33:50","slug":"midweek-music-break-old-crow-medicine-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/midweek-music-break-old-crow-medicine-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Old Crow Medicine Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

A stray comment from Jayne<\/a> yesterday reminded me of this wonderful band<\/a>, classified by Wikipedia as folk, alt-country, bluegrass, Americana, and old-time. For a 2006 NPR interview\/profile<\/a>, on the other hand, they were dubbed “punk Americana.” (If you play together for ten or fifteen years, you’ve got lots of opportunities to stretch the walls of the pigeonholes everybody wants to put you in.)<\/p>\n

They’re one of those groups with no apparent ambition to superstardom. But like many such groups, they always seem to crop up somewhere: on the concert and festival circuit, Prairie Home Companion<\/em>, Austin City Limits<\/em>… When Emmylou Harris was inducted<\/a> into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008, Old Crow Medicine Show was on hand to sing her in.<\/p>\n

Here’s “Down Home Girl,” originally released in 2006 on an EP of the same name and included a month later on their Big Iron World<\/em> album. When I first saw it, I thought the video had been shot in New York City; more likely — and more, duh, obviously<\/em> if so — it’s New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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Lyrics:<\/p>\n

Down Home Girl<\/em><\/strong>
\n (Old Crow Medicine Show)<\/em><\/p>\n

Well I swear your perfume, baby, is made out of turnip greens
\nEvery time I kiss you girl, it tastes like pork and beans<\/p>\n

Even though you’re wearing those uptown high heels
\nI can tell from your giant step you’ve been
\nwalking through the cotton fields<\/span><\/p>\n

Ohhhhhh you’re so down home girl<\/p>\n

Every time you monkey, child, it takes my breath away
\nWell, every time you move like that, girl,
\nI got to get down and pray<\/span>
\nGirl, you know that dress you’re wearin’ made out of fiber glass
\nEvery time you move like that, girl, I got to go to Sunday mass<\/p>\n

Ohhhhhh you’re so down home girl<\/p>\n

I’m going to take you to the muddy river and push you in
\nSo I can watch the water roll on down your velvet skin
\nI’m gonna take you down to New Orleans, down in Dixie land
\nSo I can watch you do the second line with
\nan umbrella in your hand<\/span><\/p>\n

Ohhhhhh you’re so down home girl…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Ha! to the old fellow’s comment which follows the song.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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