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Banjo Player and Co-founder of Old Crow Medicine Show
About Ketch Secor
In the predawn chill of 1998, a teenage Ketch Secor stood barefoot on the cracked concrete of a Beale Street alley in Memphis, tuning a battered 1920s Vega banjo he’d traded a box of bootleg Dylan cassettes for, just hours before Old Crow Medicine Show’s first paid gig at a dive bar that served Pabst and skepticism in equal measure. That instrument, its neck warped by humidity and history, became the engine of 'Wagon Wheel', a song stitched from Bob Dylan’s abandoned verse fragment and Secor’s own hitchhiking memories across Appalachia and the Deep South. He didn’t just revive old-time string-band music; he re-anchored it in lived urgency, rewriting fiddle tunes as protest chants, turning medicine show hucksterism into sly cultural critique, and insisting that authenticity lives not in museum cases but in the sweat-dampened back of a U-Haul rolling through West Virginia coal country at 3 a.m.
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- “How did you turn Dylan’s discarded 'Rock Me Mama' fragment into 'Wagon Wheel'?”
- “What’s the story behind that 1924 Vega banjo you still play?”
- “Did the 'Old Crow Medicine Show' name come from actual traveling shows?”
- “How do you balance traditional banjo technique with modern lyrical themes?”