Old Crow Medicine Show – photo © Ed Rode
To help announce the June release of their next full-length album, Union Made, Old Crow Medicine Show has dropped a new single featuring collaborators Molly Tuttle, and Del and Ronnie McCoury.
To tease the album, we get a nice medium-tempo grasser, a protest song of sorts called My Side of the Mountain, written by Old Crowe band leader and vocalist Ketch Secor, bluegrass headliner Molly Tuttle, to whom he is engaged to be married, and country chart-topper Luke Combs. It’s delivered with a trio of lead singers, as Ketch, Del, and Molly take their turns out front.
Secor shared a bit about the song.
“Molly Tuttle and I got together with Luke Combs to write this song. Both Luke and I owe a lot to the scenic town of Boone, high in the hills of westernmost North Carolina where the song is set. Another musician with deep roots in the area is bluegrass legend Del McCoury.
My Side of the Mountain celebrates the distinct culture and sound of the Appalachian people of WNC, some of our country’s most self-reliant folk. This song is for them.”
Check it out.
My Side of the Mountain is available now from popular download and streaming services online. Pre-orders for Union Made are likewise enable ahed of its June 5 release.
Old Crowe Medicine Show is on tour now in support, including two days at MerleFest this weekend.
