Photo: Jody Stevens
Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor has announced the July 11 release of his debut solo album, Story The Crow Told Me, on Equal Housing Records via Firebird Music. The initial preview and first single, “Dickerson Road,” featuring The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston, arrives today alongside the official visual equalizer/ music video.
“Dickerson Road” is a tribute to the East Nashville’s boulevard for which it’s named. Touching on the background, Secor said of the single, “The Grand Ole Opry has stars and the Hall of Fame has plaques, and in the year 2000 there was one premier destination for Nashville’s castoffs, rejects, n’er-do-wells, petty thieves, lowlifes, losers and users; so like a barfly to a bottle I went to where I felt I belonged, straight up Dickerson Road.”
He continues, “Nowadays you can only catch a fleeting glimpse of the misfit glory that once teemed down this boulevard of broken dreams, but once in awhile I’ll see some stray dog licking at some grease trap and know they’re still clawing their way to the top of trash pile down on The Dick.”
“Dickerson Road” is one of 12 tracks featured on Story The Crow Told Me, a savvy-written set that serves as a coming-of-age narrative: a dream on their solo path. On the record, Secor welcomes guest slots from Marty Stuart and Molly Tuttle, in addition to Old Crow Medicine Show alum Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson.
“There are a lot of things happening at this point in my life that are causing me to be more retrospective,” he said, reflecting on the process that led him to this point. “I’ve been in the game a long time. I do enjoy looking forward, but old-timey music is about simultaneously looking forward and backward at the same time. That’s why it’s a regressive art. You go back with it, but that’s where the strength is. The challenge is to carry the substance of the past into the present.”
Listen to “Dickerson Road.” Watch the official music video below.
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Story The Crow Told Me Tracklist
1. Busker’s Spell
2. Talkin’ Doc Blues
3. Ghost Train
4. Dickerson Road
5. Old Man River
6. Catch Me If You Can
7. Highland Rim (feat. Marty Stuart)
8. Junkin’
9. On The Wall
10. Thanks Again
11. Holes In The Wall
12. What Nashville Was
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