Artist · chart history
Old Crow Medicine Show
Band Harrisonburg United States Formed 1998
Old Crow Medicine Show formed in 1998 in Harrisonburg, United States. Old Crow Medicine Show has 37 chart appearances on 34 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wagon Wheel”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted Old Crow Medicine Show most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Old Crow Medicine Show got going in Harrisonburg in 1998 with Ketch Secor, Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson at its core, and their big break came on a sidewalk: in 2000 Doc Watson caught them playing for spare change in front of a pharmacy in Boone, North Carolina. What he heard was an old-time string band with a punk rock motor, banjos flying through original songs and blues and folk tunes older than the Second World War.
"Wagon Wheel", from the 2001 EP Troubles Up and Down the Road, is the one that stuck. Secor wrote it through a co-writing arrangement with Bob Dylan, and the band's rollicking version went platinum in April 2013. By then they were based in Nashville, and that September the Grand Ole Opry inducted them; the Americana Music Association handed them its Trailblazer Award the same year. Remedy, in 2014, won the Grammy for Best Folk Album and brought "Sweet Amarillo".
The lineup has kept turning over: Morgan Jahnig on board from 2000, Gill Landry from 2007 to 2015, Watson gone in 2011, Fuqua leaving in 2004 and coming back in 2012, and Chance McCoy and multi-instrumentalist Cory Younts arriving in 2012 and 2013. Along the way the band helped spark a revival of banjo-picking string bands, with Mumford & Sons among those who took notes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Old Crow Medicine Show on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wagon Wheel | 22 | #23 | – | – | |
| 2 | Sweet Amarillo | 6 | #15 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Miles Away | 3 | #46 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | Paint This Town | 2 | #29 | – | 2022 | |
| 5 | Gloryland | 2 | #54 | – | 2022 | |
| 6 | Angel From Montgomery | 1 | #35 | – | 2010 | |
| 7 | James River Blues | 1 | #690 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Old Crow Medicine Show as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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