2008.10.14
Cool quote from Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor
I'm transcribing my interview with Secor, for a story (with podcast) that's scheduled to run Monday. I hasn't posted an item all day, so I figured I'd drop a couple of lines from Secor.
At the time, were were talking about the song "Methamphetamine," from the band's really fine new albumm, "Tennessee Pusher." I told him I thought that particular song would have a long life among people who dig good folk music. He said:
"It’s a folk song. All of the songs we’re playing, even the ones that have a real contemporary feel, they’re all, linguistically, they’re all the language of folk music.
"You know, when you sing a song about the coal district, you can’t help but be evocative of other songs, ‘The L&N Don’t Run Here Anymore,’ and ‘Paradise’ and ‘Hazard Holler’ and ‘Dark as a Dungeon.’
"And all of those great songs from the coal district, I’m trying to evoke them in singing a song about methamphetamine."
Secor and Old Crow are playing Oct. 25 at Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre.
