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First Listen: Old Crow Medicine Show, 'Remedy'
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Remedy may well be the group's farthest-reaching, most ingratiating record yet. From the opening strains of "Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer" on, Old Crow Medicine Show plays loud and fast and loose, while remaining in complete control of every ramshackle moment. The songs get speedier from there — cue "8 Dogs 8 Banjos" for a pace of the breakneck variety — before dipping into slower and more earnest fare like "Dearly Departed Friend."
But even ballads like that one have a mile-wide quality to them: This is a band with little use for muted gestures. Fortunately, the grandiosity of Old Crow Medicine Show's sound never gives in to self-importance; these guys would rather be too corny than too cool any day. Given the band's remarkable chops, it can afford to be exactly what it is: a roots-rock juggernaut that wears (and inspires) an infectious smile at every opportunity.
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