Forget-Me-Not: Old Crow Medicine Show – “Wagon Wheel”

Quite possibly the most overplayed song in the southeast, but overplayed for a reason.

Old Crow Medicine Show is an old time string band from Nashville, Tennessee. ”Wagon Wheel” is their signature tune that seeps inside your soul and flares your rebel pride.

The song is based on an unfinished one by Bob Dylan. Ketch Secor, the fiddle player, commented about the origin of “Wagon Wheel,” saying,

“I heard a Dylan song that was unfinished back in high school and I finished it . . As a serious Bob Dylan fan, I was listening to anything he had put on tape, and this was an outtake of something he had mumbled out on one of those tapes. I sang it all around the country from about 17 to 26, before I ever even thought, ‘oh I better look into this.”

And there it was. Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel.”