Old Crow Medicine Show- Soldier's Joy

[Addiskrilla]

minds me of a Civil War movie when the ol'federate greay won theyer first battle in

Virginia in when was it? 1863?

[rockinredneck57]

@Addiskrilla I think this song is older than just about any played. It dates back past the Civil War, to the 18th century. Nobody is sure who wrote it or where it came from. It was popularized during the Civil War and after especially when the phonograph was invented. It was one of the first tunes recorded.

[fngrpkn06]

Damn this is one hot version of Soldiers Joy!!

[Rickduden]

Look at that rosin build up!!!

[applesausemcgee]

@Rickduden

i think that's cocaine

[Becky83436]

damn! watching this, I jumped up & did the buck & wing....

[missdexterity]

love these boys!

[FiddlinMikeRolland]

Old Crow Medicine Show is such a killer band. I love that they played a classic fiddle tune like Soldier's Joy too. These guys really show that even the 'simple' tunes are awesome and are exciting to listen to if you play them right. I teach this tune for free on my channel. I post a new lesson for fiddle, guitar, and mandolin there every single week! You can also get the full lesson and the sheet music on my website.

[rainharper62]

i like these guys-they are getting better and better the longer they play together as a group, hope they stay going strong in the future!! i have listened to them all night and no i don't get tired of this music for some reason??

[sammythe6th]

A great band!

[missdexterity]

there's something about a fiddle that just drives folks wild

love it!

[jambrochill]

God Damn that boy sucks at playing the fiddle

[lonestarpunk]

@jambrochill you seem to be a fool. upload a vid of yourself playing fiddle if youre so much better.

[LiamS92]

Real music! And 8 dislikes as well... I'm guessing those must be from Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus, Keith Urban and George Strait...

[dicebed]

Any soldiers joy is this - simply to be taken away from here -

[watersuckingmartian]

@dicebed

saw ocms live in "johnson city, tn, @the down home. 'bout 100-150 people. "girls from johnson county dip snuff" was a line we will always remember / just up the road near pogi. love you guys. great to see talent and heart make it in the main stream. come back to JC and the DownHome.

[Treadsoftly14]

in my home town.

[beatlebabe17]

i'm seeing them in july when they come to richmond

[Calhorsey]

I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!!! Saw them at Coachella in California and have been a true fan since. Have been a true bluegrass fan for a LONG TIME!

[Doctg100]

One of my favorites!

[SomeonewhoisFrench]

Dang, look at that rosin!

Awesome song and awesome band! The fiddler looks just like my older brother.

[halbie71]

Great!!!!!!!

[TheWaterlily2012]

Sure makes a happy feeling to hear a good old Southern song like this!

[janetiz1]

Fabtastic song of the rebel soldiers

[MrHawks124]

WoW Got to get this tune :)

[sawyer1022]

every time my little girl doesnt want to practice her violin i put in some Old crow and my girl is motivated! thank you Old Crow for inspiring the next generation!

[rrch88]

@sawyer1022 i think i'll try that with myself! heh

[PappyCaligula]

"35 Cents for the Morphine..15 cents for the Beer...25 Cents for the Pretty Lil' Gal. That's what brought me here" actually was the original lyrics BUT being the song dates back to the War of 1812, certain liberties have been taken here..As we have also certainly lost certain civil "liberties" as well..

Great song. Great rendition! But ofcourse, OCMS is "The TOTAL show". (If you ain't wore out, slap happy TIRED after going, better check yo' pulse!")

[ScottOScottOScottO]

@PappyCaligula Totally agree, in that we have lost a lot under the prez these days. Not to mention 10% unemployment and a failed stimulus bill. Can't wait for November! Peace!

[PappyCaligula]

@ScottOScottOScottO YEP, something to look forward to IF....We last that long. That oil platform had 16 levels of safety redundancy at a minimum. It was sabotage...By whom?. Our own government let it happen..

The stock market crash today is the beginning of the VERY end of this country.

10 per cent unemployment?. How about over 40 per cent soon.?!..There will be mayhem in the streets, and that's the plan for marshall law. 2 years, we'll elect our own Hitler to "fix" things.

[stevenkoehler]

@PappyCaligula I have found myself wondering in recent years if the "Homeland Security" program is a device used to erode civil liberties and pave the way for a TRUE dictator to come along at some point and, I hate to say it "Pull a Hitler" A scary thought, and yet not so difficult to imagine. Especially if consider the psychology of insane, war-mongering psychopaths! This kind of thing has happened before.....

[WindBlownLife]

@stevenkoehler I swear to god I think this is the first opinionated response I've seen to an opinionated comment that isn't either trolling or an argument. Well done, my good man.

[stevenkoehler]

@WindBlownLife Well thank you! I like discourse, and in fact I think it's a vital part of our American dialectic. It's nice when people are civil about it. I believe that we all want the same thing-which is a prosperous and functional country run be capable, caring and (reasonably) elected officials. And I do believe that we citizens have to be on top of things and express our opinions and ideas. Thanks for your comment.

[CHRISTOPHUR73]

hellbent for leather is also the title of an album and or song by metal band Judas Priest!!!!

[grundoon51]

Can't we get these guys live up North? Their concert schedule is all West and South--us expatriate Southerners who live in New York would come out in hoards to see them..

[KentuckyLane1984]

real southerns don't live up north

[grundoon51]

You can take the boy out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the boy--the South's been contaminated by too many Yankees anyway

[brodank]

DID ketch say "HELL BENT FOR LEATHER" at the begining of this?? WTF does that mean?!?!

[grundoon51]

Hell Bent for Leather means going recklessly fast, usually on a horse--seems to be an American version of an old British Army expression "hell for leather"

Seems to fit

[jpschubbs]

It's a western/cowboy term.

[denvereddennis]

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[grundoon51]

I've heard about five different melodies played under this same name, but this one really rocks, no matter what you call it--Like the man says, hell bent for leather

[Martbrant]

now this is country music!!!

COOLLLLLLLLLL

[mbeks311]

willie watson is goin' nuts 6 seconds in...tearin' it down!

[longhunter96]

Da gum I touht he was a guna bust a strang on dat tang.

[homerick]

Gidd Tanner and the Skillet Lickers would be pleased.

[deweypug]

Nice upbeat version of a sad song... (Morphine addiction by Civil war troops)

[jlfelix24]

BEST VIDEO EVER! Tear up that fiddle Ketch!

[bear2man]

Not my line but THATS SOM MYTE FINE PICKEN

[Upcamehill]

Sounds like authentic 20's-30's rural sound.

[mrsa4488]

very nice!

[ceroeck]

best version on the web

[fraiveon]

It looks like you have quite a rosin collection there :P

[JonJon95GT]

Saw that motherfucker in half.

[HellaBacon]

I know how you feel fiddlerman, Ive just started listening to ocms and the avett bros, and im going to a concert of theirs soon. Just makes me happy all over.

[BenCovo]

Avett Bros. suck balls campared to this band.

[rabbitsfoot1]

i take it you're one hardcore ocms fan. you've listened to their entire collection and seen them numerous times i suppose?

[fiddlerman1]

Man I love bluegrass, every time i hear this i cant help but to smile.

[justinruns]

Technically it's not bluegrass, it's old time.

But whatever it is I agree, it's daaaaaaaaaamn fine to hear.

[fiddlerman1]

Ya i agree with ya justinruns i think its more folk than bluegrass

[justinruns]

Well not trying to sound like a prick, but you gotta remember Bluegrass was invented until Bill Monroe came along in the 40's or so. Soldiers Joy has been around since like the 1850's I believe. It's ok though, a lot of people see a Banjo and Fiddle and instantly assume Bluegrass, when in fact it usually isn't. One of the all time great songs though, check out Cripple Creek and Red Haired Boy too for more old goodness.

[fiddlerman1]

No your fine I totaly agree with you justinruns

[jocwalk]

Wrong. The term "bluegrass" came along as a catch-all term for what had previously been known as "mountain" or "hillbilly" music. The term came from Monroe's band, The Blue Grass Boys in 1939. However, even Monroe was playing and recording well before then. Monroe certainly didn't "invent" the style. The basic style had existed since the Irish and Scots took to the hills of Tennessee and North Carolina well over 100 years before Monroe was born.

[beakwithteeth]

Yes he did. Bluegrass was a more virtuosic departure from the "old time" and "hillbilly" music styles that featured faster tempos and fast improvised solos. People came to use bluegrass as a catch all term when in fact it is quite different from the old time stuff.

[jocwalk]

If that's what you want to believe, have at it. Never mind that Monroe learned the style from playing music from his uncle and Lester Flatt brought the style he learned as a boy into Monroe's band as did Earl Scruggs. Hmm, Flatt was from Tennessee and about Monroe's age while Scruggs was from North Carolina and learned his banjo style from Snuffy Jenkins who had been playing it since the 1920's. The fact is that Monroe didn't really create anything. The style of music already existed.

[beakwithteeth]

It was when Flatt, Scruggs and Monroe came together that "bluegrass" as we know it existed. It is VERY similiar to the previous styles but is different . It would be a subgenre of the "mountain" or "hillbilly" music.

[kwolek420]

"old time" "hillbilly" "moutain" "appalachian folk" "bluegrass" "traditional". They are all the same but all very different. My understanding is that oldtime is traditional and and everybody plays the tune together, never changed or improvised. Bluegrass was inspired by old time only with jazz improv and solos. Technically you really can't call OCMS bluegrass or oldtime. I call it both or just kick ass acoustic music. A good book to read on oldtime music is "A Hotbed Of Musicians"

[kwolek420]

"country" "blues" "gospel" how about "rock n' roll" or "string band music" or "roots music". where did it come from? Ireland, Scotland, England, Africa?

[kwolek420]

"Jug band music"?

[XxWINxX94]

Bluegrass is called Bluegrass because it originated in the Bluegrass State: Kentucky.

[jocwalk]

Sorry but you're showing your ignorance. It did not "originate" in Kentucky. Mountain music had been played for MANY years before it started being recorded. Bill Monroe originally had a different sound in his band. It was the addition of Lester Flatt (from Tennessee) and Earl Scruggs (from North Carolina) to Monroe's band, The Bluegrass Boys that defined the sound of the music we now collectively label as "bluegrass."

[rmstudio]

True: Jocwalk but you could be a bit nicer. As this music is about the fellow man and the true greatness which is the type of folks that listen to it. It often tells a great story of people and life that we all should aspire to be. One of the reason I really love it. :) Peace brotha.

[jocwalk]

What I said was mean? XxWin... replied to me trying to correct me on the the history of bluegrass and then didn't have facts to back up his statement. That's simply ignorance in the truest sense.

[WeenBanjo]

you speak the truth

[Milkm4n2005]

There is just something about a banjo and a dog house bass that just makes me want to chug whiskey slap my knee's and punch someone who looks at me funny.

[Jack458111]

You are so incredibly right.

[fiddlerman1]

Man i wish i was there so bad!!!!

[rmstudio]

Wow self taught fiddle player.. I mean come on how can this guys fiddle playing not make you want to slap your knees and make you feet start stomping! Makes this old california boy proud of being a mountain boy... Hell Yah!

[sclawman]

I am my momma's golden boy I am my momma's golden boy I am my momma's golden boy Play a little tune called Soldier's Joy That's 15 cents for the morphine 25 cents for the beer 15 cents for the morphine Take me away from here I'm a gonna get a drink don't you wanna go I'm a gonna get a drink don't you wanna go I'm a gonna get a drink don't you wanna go All for the Soldier's Joy 15 cents for the morphine 25 cents for the beer 15 cents for the morphine Take we away from here

[unoriginalgangsta]

Great stuff.

[sclawman]

Ever since I saw them live a couple years back, OCMS has been my favorite band. You can't beat hearing them play these great old-tyme tunes. Soldier's Joy is almost ALWAYS played as an instrumental these days. Only these boys would sing the tune for you-and sing it great. Ketch is a self-taught fiddler by the way. Makes you appreciate his playing even more.

[GrimSan197]

I play guitar, drums, and piano, and I thought that was enough. But then I saw Ketch play that darn fiddle... now... must... learn...

[Barefootlarry]

[I play guitar, drums, and piano, and I thought that was enough. But then I saw Ketch play that darn fiddle... now... must... learn...]

I guess you know it's going to be hard, but I'm not sure you realize that it's going to be HARD!!!

Get ready to think about nearly 10 things (LITERALLY) at once, until you get a lot of them running on autopilot.

[beauAntoinette]

i played the exact same instruments, with some additional ones as well, and picked up the fiddle about a year ago, and let me tell you, it's a peice of cake next to learning the piano, and if you play the guitar it will be doubly simple

[mteborshaw]

Incredibly good. My daughter wants a bluegrass band for her wedding. Anyone know how to reach these boys?

[papercut665]

im sure they have a website

[klrkevin]

if you live around NC i know of a great band made up mostly of little kids.They won 1st in a bluegrass show I watced them in.Very good stuff.

[mteborshaw]

Thanks. Sadly I live up in the Finger Lakes area of New York in Ithaca near Trumansburg where they got their start, I believe.

[fiddlerman1]

I live in NC could you tell me more about these kids?

[klrkevin]

They live in western NC near sylva,They started taking lessons and just really took off,they have been playing for about 5 years now I guess.They each play a number of different insterments and one of the kids dad plays bass and keeps time.I guess they are about 14 now,2 boys and girl and they travel alot.Once in a while they have a free concert at their house in a lare feild.I know them because the are my wife first cousins.

[darius97]

these guys are great

[bigsnaz1]

we love this stuff in oban scotland to.

[Elpeciss1]

Wow...incredible!

[killb1ll99]

OCMS, Some of the best music I've heard in years. Keep it up. We need more real muic these days. - Paul,TN

[gabbyj1]

enough of samples and electronics back to basics

[gabbyj1]

fame will make em suck

[elawhomey]

How famous can a string band get? Seriously. So you mean MTV is gonna create a reality tv show for a string band now? Ha ha. These guys have paid their dues and deserve some exposure for a change.

[phalterman4]

So now you have to have a reality show on MTV to be famous, or cool, for that matter? I'm pretty sure that's the last place they'd want to be found.

[elawhomey]

phalterman4, my comment was a respone to the comment below that "fame would them suck". My point was and still is that OCMS aren't looking for fame because how famous can a string band get. The reality show analogy was complete sarcasm. Got it?

[andycrookmusic]

theyre hardly new

[JustAnotherBeth]

hey there... I'm a classical convert *fiddler*... and what did they tell me... "listen to old crow... listen to old crow... "

I NEVER loved Violin until I joined a *hilbilly old timey blue grassy string band!! It's like it comes alive... of course my mom is like... "for THIS i payed for lessons?"

haha!!! REAL NOW music rocks!

-Beth from *FishFryBingo*

[jaasum]

The last great band of their kind.

[Trash732]

not new age, they are old school. Saw them in Los Angeles. A great band in my opinion

[fiddlerman1]

the best band ever!

[CoolJack2]

Take this song for instance, It was a popular one among many of the early string bands & country musicians

[CoolJack2]

In my opinion OCMS are not Bluegrass, their music is much more like early country (some call it Old timey) music from before bluegrass came about than Bluegrass itself, just listen to some string bands from the 20's and early 30's. the Sound from this musc is alot more like OCMS than that of bluegrass musicians.

[jcad1009]

You are right, in my opinion. Even Flatt and Scruggs would have considered this old time. The words he sings are from the Skillet Lickers recording from about 1926. Even the fiddle style is real old time sounding - a lot more like Clayton McMichen or Gid Tanner than say Aubrey Haney or Tim Crouch

[right2read]

Yep. I shor do like this here band.

[emotionalrobot]

Love love love love love Ketch

[kooodeal]

New Age my Arse, Anything but call bluegrass,bluegrass. Why can't you accept the fact you like bluegrass.You won't turn into a hillbillie,Let your hair down and enjoy life .

[smn9ac]

I have no problem accepting the fact i love bluegrass. How is that even a question? By new age, i mean, NEW, not old, like Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, Del McCourey. I am not talking about the genre music i am talking about the age of the musicians. You are way too quick to judge. And what does likeing blugrass and turning into a hillbillie have to do with anything?

[Blondiegrrl]

Fantastic. I'd love to see them live. Thanks for these uploads!

[smn9ac]

It is great to see some "new age" bands playing these old classics. We need more of these bands around. Keep it alive boys.

[InLineRecordSource]

I love this video !!! for some more good ol' country music please go on myspace and google Ray Riddle. This guy just released a new album and I just got my copy in the mail and it ROCKS !!!!

[shelovesshanny]

The greatest band on earth!  If you havent seen them live yet, then go, go now! You only get the full feeling seein em live. And Morgan kicks ass!!!

[cheeseman350]

I am going to see them tomorrow night in Athens, GA. Can't wait!!!

[ocmswillie]

Ketch is truly gifted....

[strahisla]

i love them

[bobstar1017]

Man, the Old Crow are so good it hurts. Play that good stuff, boys.

[sclawman]

Tear up that fiddle, Ketch. Love to hear the boys plays the old fiddle tunes.

I'm am my momma's golden boy, I'm am my momma's golden boy, I am my momma's golden boy. Play a little tune called Soldier's Joy.

[sclawman]

Correction: I am my momma's golden boy, I am my momma's golden boy, I am my momma's golden boy, play a little tune called Soldier's Joy.