Watch Old Crow Medicine Show perform a haunting “Methamphetamine” onstage at the Ryman Auditorium
A blend of traditional blues, bluegrass and old-time mountain music, the song, originally featured on the group’salbum, was inspired by the band’s move to the Appalachian Mountains. Lead singer and fiddle player Secor, who wrote it with Americana powerhouse David Rawlings, notes that although Rawlings’ contribution was limited, it turned out to be significant.
“I played the chorus and it just didn’t go anywhere after… ‘It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane.’ Then Dave Rawlings said, ‘Methamphetamine!’ So Dave only wrote one word but that was the word,” he says. As Secor details the sense of foreboding he experienced in the Appalachian region with regard to drug abuse, a graph on the screen provides a chilling illustration of the increase in national drug overdose deaths by opioid involvement .
“I hoped that by writing a song about crank in East Tennessee that I could add a little bit of the healing and restorative nature of music to something that’s really, really screwed up,” says Secor. “You can sing about moonshine and you can sing about mountain-top removal. I tried to roll it all up into one and say that meth is symbolic of the pillaging of the region of Appalachia that’s been happening for 200 years with almost total disregard for the folks who call it home.”on October 4th.
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