Old Crow Medicine Show started as shivering teenagers busking on street corners with 80-year-old acoustic instruments. This deep dive follows Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua from seventh grade in Harrisonburg, Virginia, through the old-time scene of Ithaca, New York, a cassette-funded busking tour across Canada, and a found house on Beech Mountain, North Carolina, to the Grand Ole Opry, a Grammy and a co-writing credit with Bob Dylan.

We look at how they dropped punk-rock energy into 1920s string band music, why a chance sidewalk encounter with Doc Watson in Boone changed everything, and how a discarded Dylan sketch on a bootleg tape became the triple-platinum hit Wagon Wheel. We also explore how the band kept evolving, from the song Levi about a young soldier killed in Baghdad to their 2015 Grammy for Remedy and the 2026 album Union Made. ...