The most difficult pieces for me to do are those about my top 5 bands. It would be really easy for me to just devolve into fanatical gushing but I feel that would be slightly irresponsible to you. The flip side of that is that it’s really easy to get overly critical of one of your favorite bands new albums. I mean, new songs are strange and foreign, they’re hard to singalong to and the album just isn’t as comfortable as the last. I can’t count how many albums I’ve not liked on first listen that are in heavy rotation come the next week. In all honesty, the new Old Crow Medicine Show album, Tennessee Pusher, fell into that category.
Tennessee Pusher has a much more restrained feel to it than it’s predecessors. The band had elected to switch from Dave Rawling, who had produced all other OCMS albums, to Don Was. While Don Was may have produced some legends such as Dylan and the Stones I think he was a little too heavy handed with Old Crow. It almost seems like he tried to make them sound like a radio ready country band instead of the string band bluegrass street performers they are. That’s not to allude that it’s a bad cd…it’s just different. My first pass though netted 3 songs I loved, one I hated and nine I was indifferent to. A week later and I’ve really started to warm up to the album. If someone wanted me to sum it up in a sentence I’d say this: Big Iron World is for Saturday night and Tennessee Pusher is for Sunday mornings and both are essential listening in their jobs.
So, go pick the cd up today but with hold judgment until next Tuesday.
Old Crow Medicine Show - Alabama High-Test
Old Crow Medicine Show - Hotel in Memphis
Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline
Old Crow Medicine Show’s Official Site, Old Crow Medicine Show on myspace, Buy Tennessee Pusher
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