Old Crow Medicine Show has announced The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots, a spring run of intimate performances centered on the band’s earliest recordings.
The tour launches Marchth 18 at Nashville’s Station Inn and will feature Old Crow Medicine Show performing their first two releases, O.C.M.S. and Big Iron World, in full. The shows will be presented in a stripped-down format, emphasizing the string-band arrangements and songs that defined the group’s foundational years. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 23rd, at 10 a.m. local time via the band’s website.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been 22 years since the launch of our O.C.M.S. album and 20 years since our second studio record, Big Iron World,” frontman Ketch Secor said in a statement. “Being a string band back in the early 2000s, well ahead of the Americana music movement, made us an odd fit in Music City. But going our own way despite the odds was the only foreseeable path for fiddles and banjos in the 21st century, and it worked.”
Since forming in the late 1990s, the group has been recognized for blending traditional folk and string-band music with contemporary songwriting, earning two Grammy Awards along the way.
The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots
March 18 – Nashville, TN @ Station Inn
March 19 – Boone, NC @ Appalachian Theatre
March 20 – Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre
March 21 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
March 22 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
March 31 – Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre
April 1 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Gaillard Center
April 2 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
April 3 – Savannah, GA @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
April 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
April 24–25 – Wilkesboro, NC @ MerleFest
