I am enjoying a minor obsession with a country jam. Its an older song, but new to me, and I can’t listen to it enough.
The group is called Old Crow Medicine Show. they’ve been around for years and their biggest song, “Wagon Wheel” is from their 2004 record O.C.M.S.
I download this song for a wedding awhile back. The first time I heard it I didn’t think too much about it. I remember thinking it was an odd wedding request… but then wedding couples always request the odd odd song. Something that means something to them from a holiday, camping trip, growing up, whatever. I did stress about how I’d work the song into a dance set…
The wedding comes and I don’t play the song. near the end of the night, the groom a few in… comes over and says, “Its time for ‘Wagon Wheel.'”
OK, its your wedding… I play the song and the dance floor goes off… all the friends knew the song and sang it word-for-word.
That was a nice moment and I filed that away in my brain. Then this weekend, the couple enjoyed country music, so as I researched my playlist, there is OCMS sitting on the hard drive.
I played it again, and again everyone got into it. And this time, I too got into the song.
Now I can’t hear it enough.
Its the first time… well in a long time I can remember really being into a country song. There are country songs that I like. And I’ve had some great times hanging out with my sister or friends…and they’ve played some country. But here I am… choosing to hit play on a country song. Geez, not since the Rascal Flatts incident of 2006 have I been into a country song so much.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 