Old Crow’s Ketch Secor Is Protecting Country’s History

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome back to Nashville Now. This week we’re joined by journalist Marissa R. Moss to dissect the 2025 CMA Awards nominations and snubs. We also chat with the charismatic leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, Ketch Secor, who dropped his new solo album, Story the Crow Told Me, earlier this summer. Secor shares his thoughts on his new public television job, the architectural landscape flaws of Nashville, and his commitment to gun control. Listen in! Country is Here, Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist, updated weekly on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Check one, two.
0:04.4	All right.
0:06.5	Hey, welcome to Rolling Stones, Nashville Now.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Joseph Hudak, senior music editor at Rolling Stone.
0:12.9	This is our podcast of all things, country music and Nashville.
0:17.2	Country is here.
0:18.5	Nashville is now.
0:19.9	We have a very, very special episode today. We have our dear friend and scholar, Marissa Armas, on with me talking about CMA nominations. And we also have a very cool guest. He is a raconteur. He is a grandal opera member. He is a solo artist and he is the front man of Old
0:39.8	Crow Medicine Show. It is Catch Seacore. The Pee Wee Herman of country music. And you'll see why I say
0:46.6	that in a minute. It is not derogatory. I personally think there's no higher praise than to be
0:52.3	compared to Peewee Herman. May he rest in peace.
0:56.4	Typically, we do our country music news segment right now, but today, today is CMA Awards
1:03.6	nominations day. This morning is like Christmas morning in the country music industry.
1:10.4	Because we have Marissa Moss here.
1:12.9	Marissa Moss, one of our contributors and the author of her country is the CMA Awards nominations
1:18.9	today. Welcome. Thanks for having me. It's so good to have you. I was so looking forward to this.
1:24.6	All right. So here's the talking points. We're going to go right from the press release here because it's a lot easier.
1:29.6	The talking points are that Ella Langley, Megan Maroney, and Lainey Wilson are the top honorees with six nominations each.
1:40.0	Other top nominees include Zach Top with five, Riley Green and Cody Johnson with four.
1:46.0	It's three women who are leading all nominees in Ella, Megan, and Lainey.
1:51.7	Yeah.
1:52.1	Is that a good sign?
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