Song · Old Crow Medicine Show
“Sweet Amarillo” by Old Crow Medicine Show
From the album Remedy (2014)
“Sweet Amarillo” by Old Crow Medicine Show appears on 6 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2014 and 2025. It was first released in 2014 on the album Remedy. Its best result is #15 on the WEXT Top 97 of 2014. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #63 indie & aaa song of 2014.
"Sweet Amarillo" landed on Old Crow Medicine Show's Remedy on July 1, 2014, but its roots run back to 1973, when Bob Dylan sang a brief take on the Donna Weiss tune during the Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid soundtrack sessions, with Weiss and Brenda Patterson singing there too. Patterson cut it for her 1974 album Like Good Wine, and Weiss sang it on the second leg of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.
Dylan eventually asked Ketch Secor to finish it, and the credit now reads Weiss, Secor and Critter Fuqua. When the band sent him their demo, Dylan had notes: Secor should play fiddle, not harmonica, and the chorus should kick in on bar eight rather than bar 16. They did as told, and Secor saws the fiddle and plays piano while Fuqua works the accordion. Ted Hutt produced, mixing with Ryan Mall.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 68 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2014 | 90 |
| 2014 | 15 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2014 | 97 |
| 2014 | 55 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2014 | 89 |
| 2014 | 61 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 303 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2025 | 684 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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