Old Crow Medicine Show returns to the music scene after a four-year break with the new full-length album, “Carry Me Back.” The folk six-piece provides new energy and manages while simultaneously staying true to its bluegrass roots. The album is well-balanced, equipped with both toe-tapping numbers – “Mississippi Saturday Night” – as well as heartfelt ballads – “Genevieve.” “Carry Me Back” also displays the band’s ability to master the simple, “Country Gal,” and complex tunes “Carry Me Back to Virginia,” both of which sound organic and fitting. OCMS possess a unique talent of capturing a refreshing, vintage sound that has long been extinct since the invention of Auto-Tune. The string band provides easy-listening, even for those who aren’t fans of Americana, with tinges of soul and alternative. This record would be best listened to while cruising the back roads of the deep, dirty South.
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