Ketch Secor

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Frontman and fiddler for Old Crow Medicine Show, Ketch Secor, joins Rhett from his longtime home of Nashville to talk about the upcoming Old Crow Medicine Show album, the difficulty of writing songs about social and political issues, and why there are so many things to sing about today that make the heart heavy. Ketch explains why moving around a lot as a kid helped to shape him as an artist, and discusses his incredible career in one of the top Americana acts of the last 20 years. Ketch Secor is a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, a Grammy Award—winning group that has been inducted as members of the Grand Ole Opry. In 2017 and 2018, Old Crow Medicine Show released three critically acclaimed albums: Best of Old Crow Medicine Show (Nettwerk), 50 Years of Blonde On Blonde (Columbia Nashville), a reimagined version of Bob Dylan's classic Blonde on Blonde album, and Volunteer (Sony Music Nashville). Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Visit SunsetlakeCBD.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off premium CBD products. Visit GradysColdBrew.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off your first purchase of New Orleans-style coffee & cold brew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMIS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	He started on me ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. How does one keep a band together for 23 years?
0:25.6	How does one make music in a genre that demands authenticity
0:32.6	when that person has, you know, lived in parts of the world that don't ring true with the demographic
0:40.6	targeted by that type of music. How does one continue to create in a world that can be so
0:51.7	problematic, you know, difficult, tricky.
0:57.3	Catch Seacore, founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, has kept his band together for 23 years.
1:03.9	He's gotten all sorts of awards.
1:05.5	Grammys inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, made tons of great records that have sold a lot of copies,
1:15.7	had hit songs. But every day he wakes up and he tries to go through what he describes as
1:23.4	difficult process of writing songs because it's what he does, because he believes in the value
1:29.8	of it. I really enjoyed getting to talk with him. I've kept an eye on his band, not just because
1:35.0	our albums are always alphabetically linked, but because I admire the music he makes. I admire the
1:43.4	work he does. I admire the person he makes. I admire the work he does.
1:51.5	I admire the person that he is out in the world, working hard, putting his money where his mouth is.
1:59.7	Anyway, I think the world to catch C-Core, and I'm so glad that I got to have him on this newest episode of Wheels Off.
2:05.0	There were some audio issues on the recording on my end.
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